Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!feeder.news-service.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.017 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.97; '*S*': 0.00; 'think,': 0.05; 'skip:[ 30': 0.09; ';-)': 0.12; 'wrote:': 0.15; 'already.': 0.16; 'bieber': 0.16; 'mean,': 0.16; 'received:131': 0.16; 'suggested.': 0.16; 'univ.': 0.16; 'wien,': 0.16; '>>>': 0.16; 'subject:list': 0.16; 'part,': 0.19; 'this?': 0.22; "doesn't": 0.22; 'header:In- Reply-To:1': 0.22; 'wonder': 0.23; '(or': 0.25; 'handles': 0.25; 'function': 0.26; 'url:mailman': 0.27; 'lee': 0.28; "skip:' 30": 0.29; 'fixed': 0.29; 'carl': 0.30; 'url:listinfo': 0.32; 'michael': 0.32; 'list': 0.32; 'break': 0.33; 'to:addr:python- list': 0.34; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.34; 'there': 0.34; 'subject: ?': 0.35; "isn't": 0.35; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.36; 'url:python': 0.37; 'url:org': 0.38; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'something': 0.38; 'should': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'might': 0.39; 'where': 0.40; 'skip:+ 10': 0.66; 'here.': 0.66; 'materials': 0.69; 'dennis': 0.77; 'no?': 0.84; 'subject:skip:o 10': 0.84; 'voice:': 0.84 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=univie.ac.at; s=rev2; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:To:From:Date; bh=HUwH3PbHNpR7ws2AAczFwk+x5Kcd5Iyq7vhGMJ29NAQ=; b=AhIzBp+AeqE3jsZDmEW8OnBqHBhJbrBljRP0YptIhEpdjjqrQz0P3uR8q40INskNzA9tyq+pj8tIY2HDK9NTJxbRgj282cuGcXMw1ioA1Ge3hy/89ZAcmfgDgPxYZQVL9JnrE1XsyXkgVJzj3UPm4vP24tyX/cytdEUS9JLJzl0=; Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 02:23:15 +0200 From: Michael Poeltl To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: list comprehension to do os.path.split_all ? References: <1954d20a-7177-45d9-afa0-e98b171b2822@w27g2000yqk.googlegroups.com> <879a920c-d06a-4413-9566-6c9f0b737235@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> <4E33169E.90307@web.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E33169E.90307@web.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Univie-Virus-Scan: scanned by ClamAV on justin.univie.ac.at X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 37 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1311985785 news.xs4all.nl 23982 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:43365 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:10557 * Alexander Kapps [2011-07-29 22:30]: > On 29.07.2011 21:30, Carl Banks wrote: > >> It's not even fullproof on Unix. >> >> '/home//h1122/bin///ghi/'.split('/') >> >> ['','home','','bin','','','ghi',''] what about this? >>> ' '.join('/home//h1122/bin///ghi/'.split('/')).split() ['home', 'h1122', 'bin', 'ghi'] >>> ;-) regards Michael >> 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? > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- 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