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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:04:52 -0600
Subject: Re: list comprehension to do os.path.split_all ?
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On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> wrote:
>> path =3D '/home/gyoung/hacks/pathhack/foo.py'
>> parts =3D [part for path, part in iter(lambda: os.path.split(path), ('/'=
, ''))]
>> parts.reverse()
>> print parts
>>
>> But that's horrendously ugly. =A0Just write a generator with a while
>> loop or something.
>
> Also, note that if the path does not start with '/', the result will
> be an infinite loop.

Oh, and this won't work at all in Python 3, because it relies on the
lambda having access to the list comprehension scope.