windows / unix path

2008-10-18 Thread Marcin201
Is there an built-in functionality in python to convert Windows paths to Unix paths? I am running into problems when creating data files on Windows and the running them on a Unix platform. I create paths using os.path.join. os.path.join('Pictures', '01.jpg') returns 'Pictures\\01..jpg' on Win.

destructor not called

2008-09-28 Thread Marcin201
I have a class which uses a temporary directory for storing data. I would like that directory to be removed when the class is no longer used. I have tried removing the temporary directory from the class destructor, however, it was never called. After I while I traced the problem to the class hav

Re: destructor not called

2008-09-29 Thread Marcin201
> Others have already replied to your main question; in short you > shouldn't rely on __del__ being called. Regardless, is there a (good) > reason for having an instance reference to the method ? Without > further information, that seems like a code smell. I have dictionary of fxns to do import/ex