On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 2:23 AM, Alessandro <alexxx.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, I'm a python newbie with a problem too hard to tackle. > > I have a string defining a path, were all the spaces have been > converted to underscores. > How can I find if it corresponds to a real path? > > e.g. a string like '/some/path_to/directory_1/and_to/directory_2' > with a real path: '/some/path_to/directory 1/and_to/directory 2' > > notice that the real path can contain BOTH spaces and underscores. > > How can I feed it to os.path.exists() ???
Use the `glob` module instead: http://docs.python.org/library/glob.html from glob import glob real_paths = glob(underscored_path.replace('_','[_ ]')) #note: it's possible for there to be multiple matches Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
