On 2011-07-28, gry <georgeryo...@gmail.com> wrote: > [python 2.7] I have a (linux) pathname that I'd like to split > completely into a list of components, e.g.: > '/home/gyoung/hacks/pathhack/foo.py' --> ['home', 'gyoung', > 'hacks', 'pathhack', 'foo.py'] > > os.path.split gives me a tuple of dirname,basename, but there's > no os.path.split_all function. > > I expect I can do this with some simple loop, but I have such > faith in the wonderfulness of list comprehensions, that it > seems like there should be a way to use them for an elegant > solution of my problem. I can't quite work it out. Any > brilliant ideas? (or other elegant solutions to the problem?)
If an elegant solution doesn't occur to me right away, then I first compose the most obvious solution I can think of. Finally, I refactor it until elegance is either achieved or imagined. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
