On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 2:29 AM, anatoly techtonik <techto...@gmail.com> wrote: > Right. But I am working more with URL paths nowadays. In there if I > want to join two paths, no matter if 2nd starts with slash or not, I > don't really expect the 2nd to rewrite the first.
Then os.path.join is probably the wrong tool for the job. Do you want to collapse "/foo/bar" + "../quux" into "/foo/quux"? That rewrites the first. If not, don't use a function that does that. Try simple string concatenation instead. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list