Carl Banks wrote: > It's not even fullproof on Unix. > > '/home//h1122/bin///ghi/'.split('/') > > ['','home','','bin','','','ghi','']
What? No. Absolutely not -- that would be a major bug. Did you actually try it? >>> '/home//h1122/bin///ghi/'.split('/') ['', 'home', '', 'h1122', 'bin', '', '', 'ghi', ''] Exactly as expected, and correct. Now obviously if you intend treating this as a list of path components, you have to filter out the empty strings, but otherwise works fine. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list