Michael Maibaum wrote:
> On 25 Feb 2005, at 14:09, Harper, Gina wrote:
>
>> I would start with something like this:
>> somestring = '/foo/bar/beer/sex/cigarettes/drugs/alcohol/'
>> somelist = somestring.split('/')
>> print somelist
>
> However - this will not work on Windows. It'd work on all the OS I
> usually use though ;)
>
This should work reasonably reliably on Windows and Unix:
>>> somestring = '/foo/bar/beer/sex/cigarettes/drugs/alcohol/'
>>> os.path.normpath(somestring).split(os.path.sep)
['', 'foo', 'bar', 'beer', 'sex', 'cigarettes', 'drugs', 'alcohol']
However a better solution is probably to call os.path.split repeatedly
until it won't split anything more:
>>> somestring = r'C:\foo\bar\beer'
>>> def splitpath(p):
res = []
while 1:
p, file = os.path.split(p)
if not file:
break
res.append(file)
res.append(p)
res.reverse()
return res
>>> splitpath(somestring)
['C:\\', 'foo', 'bar', 'beer']
>>> splitpath('foo/bar')
['', 'foo', 'bar']
The first component is an empty string for relative paths, a drive letter
or \ for absolute Windows paths, \\ for UNC paths, / for unix absolute
paths.
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