Thanks for your replies, guys.
As it happens, what sparked the question was trying to determine in a platform-independent way whether a path consisted of a bare drive specification (e.g. "C:"). I guess
   os.path.splitdrive(MyPath)[1] == ""
takes care of that.
Rob Cliffe


----- Original Message ----- From: "Guido van Rossum" <gu...@python.org>
To: "Rob Cliffe" <rob.cli...@btinternet.com>
Cc: "Python-Dev" <python-dev@python.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 4:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Drive suffix


It's Windows specific syntax and always a colon. Use
os.path.splitdrive() to parse it. I don't think there's a need to add
a named constant for it (you're the first to ask, in my memory).

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Rob Cliffe <rob.cli...@btinternet.com> wrote:
Is there a way of determining the suffix used after a drive letter to denote
a drive, e.g. on Windows the ":" in r"C:\Dir\Subdir\File.Ext" ? Or is the
colon so universal that it is considered unnecessary? Should it be in the
os module somewhere (as far as I can tell, it isn't, although every other
kind of file path component separator seems to be) ?

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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