On Jun 7, 3:15 am, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:57:03 -0700, s0suk3 wrote: > > You can just split the path on `os.sep', which contains the path > > separator of the platform on which Python is running: > > > components = pathString.split(os.sep) > > Won't work for platforms with more than one path separator and if a > separator is repeated. For example r'\foo\\bar/baz//spam.py' or: > > In [140]: os.path.split('foo//bar') > Out[140]: ('foo', 'bar') > > In [141]: 'foo//bar'.split(os.sep) > Out[141]: ['foo', '', 'bar'] >
But those are invalid paths, aren't they? If you have a jumble of a path, I think the solution is to call os.path.normpath() before splitting. Sebastian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list