On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:59:15 -0300, Tim Cook wrote: > Hi All, > > I just ran into an issue with the rstrip method when using it on path > strings. > > When executing a function I have a need to strip off a portion of the > current working directory and add on a path to a log file. Initially > this worked great but then I added a branch in SVN which caused the path > to contain 'LNCCWorkshop'. The rstrip() then began removing the > characters 'shop' leaving an incorrect path to the log file. When I > hard coded this path it worked okay but then did the same thing later in > the file when I needed to point to a database. The code worked fine with > a different path. Here are some code fragments. > > logfile=os.getcwd().rstrip('src/oship/atbldr')+'/oship/log/ at_build_errors.log' > > this worked when the path was: > /home/tim/ref_impl_python/TRUNK/oship/src/oship/atbldr > > the code above returns: > /home/tim/ref_impl_python/TRUNK/oship/log/at_build_errors.log > > but when I tried a branches version that has the path: > /home/tim/ref_impl_python/BRANCHES/LNCCWorkshop/oship/src/oship/atbldr > > it SHOULD return: > /home/tim/ref_impl_python/BRANCHES/LNCCWorkshop/oship/log/ at_build_errors.log > > but I get: > /home/tim/ref_impl_python/BRANCHES/LNCCWork/oship/log/ at_build_errors.log > > logfile=os.getcwd() > print logfile is correct; but when I add the .rstrip('src/oship/atbldr') > it also strips the 'shop' off of LNCCWorkshop and returns > /home/tim/ref_impl_python/BRANCHES/LNCCWork/oship/log/ at_build_errors.log > > I had two other people looking at this as we did troubleshooting and we > could not determine the cause. It is repeatable with this path name. In > resolution I renamed the branch to just LNCC and it works fine. > > Thoughts? > > Tim
Is this the Tim Cook I worked with at UCI? Anyway, I think the os.path module might have something for you. As a little bonus, it should produce code that works well with other operating systems, and should deal gracefully with repeated slashes. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list