One thing more then is that if you are splitting paths inside nuke, os.sep
seems to fail.
Presumably this is because Nuke has already changed '\' to '/'?
Howard
>________________________________
> From: Diogo Girondi <[email protected]>
>To: Howard Jones <[email protected]>; Nuke Python discussion
><[email protected]>
>Sent: Thursday, 17 May 2012, 11:40
>Subject: Re: [Nuke-python] Re: Seeing inside a string, to replace a file path
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>
>Yes, it will handle the separator correctly depending on the OS where the
>script is being run.
>
>
>On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 5:30 AM, Howard Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>Thanks Frank.
>>
>>
>>Do you need to know the separator or is this handled correctly by os?
>>The docs on python.org seem a bit unclear here? Also they seem to suggest its
>>only sometimes useful whereas it would appear
>>it's a very useful tool.
>>
>>
>>
>>I see also the file is returned as well so I dont need os.path.split[1] for
>>that.
>>
>>
>>Cheers
>>
>>Howard
>>
>>
>>
>>>________________________________
>>> From: Frank Rueter <[email protected]>
>>>To: [email protected]
>>>Sent: Wednesday, 16 May 2012, 23:46
>>>
>>>Subject: Re: [Nuke-python] Re: Seeing inside a string, to replace a file path
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>os.path.split will only split the item after the last slash:
>>>p = '/tmp/a/b/c/file.txt'
>>>s.path.split( p )
>>>('/tmp/a/b/c', 'file.txt')
>>>
>>>whereas os.sep can be used in split() to split the whole thing:
>>>p.split( os.sep )
>>>['', 'tmp', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'file.txt']
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>On 16/05/12 7:48 PM, Howard Jones wrote:
>>>os.path.split is the one I've always used. What's the advantage of os.sep?
>>>>
>>>>H
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>________________________________
>>>> From: Frank Rueter <[email protected]>;
>>>>To: <[email protected]>;
>>>>Subject: Re: [Nuke-python] Re: Seeing inside a string, to replace a file
>>>>path
>>>>Sent: Tue, May 15, 2012 9:41:23 PM
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>check out os.path.split as well
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>On 16/05/12 8:51 AM, Nathan Rusch wrote:
>>>>There are a couple things you need to be aware of.
>>>>>
>>>>>First, your string includes the ASCII control character \r. You either
>>>>>need to escape your backslashes by doubling them up or use a raw string:
>>>>>
>>>>>"C:\\workFolder\\shots\\renderFolder"
>>>>># or
>>>>>r"C:\workFolder\shots\renderFolder"
>>>>>
>>>>>Now, the reason you’re hitting a SyntaxError is because your split string
>>>>>is an unescaped backslash, which makes Python think you’re trying to
>>>>>escape a single quote inside a single-quoted string and then failing to
>>>>>complete the string with another single quote. Escaping your backslash
>>>>>will work, but a safer bet is to use os.sep.
>>>>>
>>>>>import os
>>>>>r"C:\workFolder\shots\renderFolder".split(os.sep)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>-Nathan
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>From: Noggy
>>>>>Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 1:39 PM
>>>>>To: [email protected]
>>>>>Subject: [Nuke-python] Re: Seeing inside a string, to replace a file path
>>>>> Thanks! Now I get it. Does split only work on a list? I am getting an
>>>>>error trying to use split on a string. There's something about this that
>>>>>isn't clicking for me.
>>>>>
>>>>>wPath = "C:\workFolder\shots\renderFolder"
>>>>>wPath.split('\')[:4]
>>>>>
>>>>>SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string
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