On Wednesday 04 August 2010, Rob Cliffe wrote:
> 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.
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2010/8/5 Greg Ewing
> James Mills wrote:
>
>> Windows
>> is one of the only Operating Systems with a File system that reuiqres
>> this [A-Z]:\ syntax.
>>
>
> There's also VMS, but it uses a colon too. Also its
> pathnames are funky enough in other ways that it
> needs its own os-specific pathname
"Stephen J. Turnbull" writes:
> It's a shame that Windows machines can be networked
+1 QOTW
Even if QOTW doesn't work in this forum, I still cast my vote.
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Greg Ewing writes:
> I'm not aware of any system that's "just like Windows"
> except that it uses something other than colons.
It's a shame that Windows machines can be networked; otherwise we
could formally treat drive letters as the scheme component of file
URLs.
James Mills wrote:
Windows
is one of the only Operating Systems with a File system that reuiqres
this [A-Z]:\ syntax.
There's also VMS, but it uses a colon too. Also its
pathnames are funky enough in other ways that it
needs its own os-specific pathname routines.
I'm not aware of any system th
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- Original Message -
From: "Guido van Rossum"
To: "Rob Cliffe"
Cc: "Python-Dev"
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
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 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).
HI Guido, I'm not a windows user or developer,
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 wrote:
> Is there a way of determining the suffix used after a dri
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 o
