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Re: list comprehension to do os.path.split_all ?

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On 29.07.2011 21:30, Carl Banks wrote:

> It's not even fullproof on Unix.
>
> '/home//h1122/bin///ghi/'.split('/')
>
> ['','home','','bin','','','ghi','']
>
> The whole point of the os.path functions are to take care of whatever oddities there are in the path system.  When you use string manipulation to manipulate paths, you bypass all of that and leave yourself open to those oddities, and then you find your applications break when a user enters a doubled slash.
>
> So stick to os.path.
>
>
> Carl Banks

This would also be fixed with normpath() as Dennis Lee Bieber 
suggested. And my solution with list comprehensions handles this too.

Still, there might be other path oddities which would break here. I 
think, that something like a split_all() function should be 
available in the stdlib, no?

Actually, it isn't the first time, where I wonder why 
os.path.split() doesn't do this already. I mean, str.split() doesn't 
only split on the first part, right?

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list comprehension to do os.path.split_all ? gry <georgeryoung@gmail.com> - 2011-07-28 13:18 -0700
  Re: list comprehension to do os.path.split_all ? Stefaan Himpe <stefaan.himpe@gmail.com> - 2011-07-28 22:32 +0200
  Re: list comprehension to do os.path.split_all ? Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2011-07-28 20:36 +0000
    Re: list comprehension to do os.path.split_all ? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-07-28 14:03 -0700
  Re: list comprehension to do os.path.split_all ? Alan Meyer <ameyer2@yahoo.com> - 2011-07-28 16:40 -0400
    Re: list comprehension to do os.path.split_all ? TheSaint <no@nowhere.net.no> - 2011-07-29 22:29 +0800
  Re: list comprehension to do os.path.split_all ? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-07-28 14:44 -0600
  Re: list comprehension to do os.path.split_all ? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-07-28 14:47 -0600
  Re: list comprehension to do os.path.split_all ? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-07-28 15:04 -0600
  Re: list comprehension to do os.path.split_all ? Alexander Kapps <alex.kapps@web.de> - 2011-07-28 23:06 +0200
  Re: list comprehension to do os.path.split_all ? Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> - 2011-07-28 14:15 -0700
  Re: list comprehension to do os.path.split_all ? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-07-28 15:31 -0600
    Re: list comprehension to do os.path.split_all ? Carl Banks <pavlovevidence@gmail.com> - 2011-07-29 12:30 -0700
      Re: list comprehension to do os.path.split_all ? Alexander Kapps <alex.kapps@web.de> - 2011-07-29 22:22 +0200
      Re: list comprehension to do os.path.split_all ? Michael Poeltl <michael.poeltl@univie.ac.at> - 2011-07-30 02:23 +0200
      Re: list comprehension to do os.path.split_all ? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-07-30 10:55 +1000
      Re: list comprehension to do os.path.split_all ? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-07-29 22:17 -0700
      Re: list comprehension to do os.path.split_all ? Michael Poeltl <michael.poeltl@univie.ac.at> - 2011-07-31 07:40 +0200
  Re: list comprehension to do os.path.split_all ? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-07-28 21:15 -0700
    Re: list comprehension to do os.path.split_all ? Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2011-07-29 12:40 +0000
      Re: list comprehension to do os.path.split_all ? Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xemacs.org> - 2011-07-31 08:42 +0200

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