On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 8:46 PM, harryos <oswald.ha...@gmail.com> wrote: > In windows ,I tried this > > p1 = "C:\Users\me\Documents" > p2 = "..\Pictures\images\my.jpg" > > print os.path.join(p1,p2) > This gives > 'C:\\Users\\me\\Documents\\..\\Pictures\\images\\my.jpg' > > I expected I would get > 'C:\\Users\\me\\Pictures\\images\\my.jpg' > > I thought os.path.join would join the paths more intelligently..Any > idea why this happens ?
Because that's just not how the function is defined. I admit the "intelligently" descriptor in its docs is fairly vague. Call os.path.normpath() on the join() result to simplify the path and obtain the form you expected. http://docs.python.org/library/os.path.html#os.path.normpath Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
