* Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> [2011-07-31 03:44]: > On Jul 29, 2011 6:33 PM, "Michael Poeltl" <michael.poe...@univie.ac.at> > wrote: > > > > what about this? > > >>> ' '.join('/home//h1122/bin///ghi/'.split('/')).split() > > ['home', 'h1122', 'bin', 'ghi'] > > >>> > > Doesn't work on filenames with spaces in them. you are right; me, I never put spaces into my filenames and so I didn't think of this possibility.
so there is another idea, which will not work on dirnames 'with spacs in them' ;-) >>> p = '/path//to///file/i am a file' >>> ' >>> '.join(os.path.split(p)[0].split('/')).split().__add__([os.path.split(p)[1]]) ['path', 'to', 'file', 'i am a file'] >>> -- Michael Poeltl Computational Materials Physics voice: +43-1-4277-51409 Univ. Wien, Sensengasse 8/12 fax: +43-1-4277-9514 (or 9513) A-1090 Wien, AUSTRIA cmp.mpi.univie.ac.at ----------------------------------------------------------------- slackware-12.2/ubuntu-10.10 | vim-7.3 | python-3.2.1 | mutt-1.5.18 | elinks-0.12 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list