On 27/05/2020 14:53, Rhodri James wrote: > On 27/05/2020 14:41, BlindAnagram wrote: >> That is true if you know for sure how your path will be used. >> >> But if you don't, there is a world of difference between passing the >> paths 'name' and 'name\\' on for others to use. And in this situation it >> doesn't help when os.path functions strip the directory separator off. > > Only if you impose meaning externally, which implies you do know how > your path will be used after all. If you want to know whether a given > path corresponds to a file or a directory on a filing system, there's no > real substitute for looking on the filing system. Anything else is, as > you have discovered, error-prone.
I'm sorry that you don't believe me but all I know is how I intend the path to be used. And the os.path functions aren't helpful here when they actually _change_ the meanings of paths on Windows: >> fp= "C:\\Documents\finance\\" >> abspath(fp) 'C:\\Documents\\finance' If you believe these 'before' and 'after' paths are the same I can only assume that you don't work on Windows (where one refers to a directory and the other a file without an extension). -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
