On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:15:07 -0700, s0suk3 wrote:
> On Jun 7, 3:15 am, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:57:03 -0700, s0suk3 wrote:
>> > You can just split the path on `os.sep', which contains the path
>> > separator of the platform on which Python is running:
>>
>> > components = pathString.split(os.sep)
>>
>> Won't work for platforms with more than one path separator and if a
>> separator is repeated. For example r'\foo\\bar/baz//spam.py' or:
>>
>> In [140]: os.path.split('foo//bar')
>> Out[140]: ('foo', 'bar')
>>
>> In [141]: 'foo//bar'.split(os.sep)
>> Out[141]: ['foo', '', 'bar']
>>
>
> But those are invalid paths, aren't they?
No. See `os.altsep` on Windows. And repeating separators is allowed too.
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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