On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Stef Mientki <stef.mien...@gmail.com> wrote: > hello, > > just wonder how others solve this problem: > I've to distribute both python files and data files. > Everything is developed under windows and now the datafiles contains paths > with mixed \\ and /. > Under windows everthing is working well, > but under Ubuntu / Fedora sometimes strange errors occurs. > Now I was thinking that using os.path.split would solve all problems, > but if I've the following relative path > > path1/path2\\filename.dat > > split will deliver the following under windows > path = path1 / path2 > filename = filename.dat > > while under Linux it will give me > path = path1 > filename = path\\filename.dat > > So I'm now planning to replace all occurences of os.path.split with a call > to the following function > > def path_split ( filename ) : > # under Ubuntu a filename with both > # forward and backward slashes seems to give trouble > # already in os.path.split > filename = filename.replace ( '\\','/') > > return os.path.split ( filename ) > > how do others solve this problem ? > Are there better ways to solve this problem ?
Just always use forward-slashes for paths in the first place since they work on both platforms. But your technique seems a reasonable way of dealing with mixed-up datafiles, since you're in that situation. Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
