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 <rob.cli...@btinternet.com> wrote: > 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 other > kind of file path component separator seems to be) ? -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
