Unless it's the sort of operating system that uses something like : Sys$disk:[foo.bar.moo.lar]myfile.txt
(VaxVMS, from quite a few years ago) And if I recall, the parsing function provided would also separate the extension from the main part of the file's name. Unhelpfully, Richard. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of BartlebyScrivener Sent: 10 July 2006 15:52 To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Full splitting of a file's pathname I don't know if it's "standard," but why not just: dir = './foo/bar/moo/lar/myfile.txt' dir.split('/') ['.', 'foo', 'bar', 'moo', 'lar', 'myfile.txt'] rd -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
