On 26/05/2020 17:46, MRAB wrote: > On 2020-05-26 16:48, BlindAnagram wrote: >> On 26/05/2020 16:22, Ben Bacarisse wrote: >>> BlindAnagram <blindanag...@nowhere.com> writes: >>> >>>> I came across an issue that I am wondering whether I should report >>>> as an >>>> issue. If I have a directory, say: >>>> >>>> base='C:\\Documents' >>>> >>>> and I use os.path.join() as follows: >>>> >>>> join(base, '..\\..\\', 'build', '') >>> >>> It rather defeats the purpose of os.sep if you include it in a part of >>> the path. What you mean is better expressed as >>> >>> join(base, '..', '..', 'build', '') >>> >>> (and base includes it too, but I can't suggest an alternative because I >>> don't know your intent is far as defaults go.) >> >> Thanks for your input but while that part of my path may not be to your >> liking, it works fine and does not seem to be relevant to my concern, >> which is that join appears to treat os.sep as an absolute path, which it >> is not. >> > If it starts with the path separator, then it's absolute (well, absolute > on that drive).
Agreed. I did not think that I needed to add this exception to my comment as I thought from the the context that it would be clear that I was questioning how it worked at the end of a path, not when used at its start. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
