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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:54:32 -0700
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Subject: Re: Global join function?
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On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Darrel Grant <darrel343@gmail.com> wrote:
> In the virtualenv example bootstrap code, a global join function is used.
>
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv
>
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0subprocess.call([join(home_dir, 'bin', 'easy_install'),
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 'Bl=
ogApplication'])
>
>
> In interpeter, I tried this:
>
>>>> [join([], 'bin', 'easy_install')]
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> =C2=A0File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> NameError: name 'join' is not defined
>
> I think I've seen this used elsewhere, but googling only seems to show
> results about the string method join, not whatever this is.

Those example snippets are broken. They're presumably missing the line:
    from os.path import join
Docs for the function in question:
http://docs.python.org/library/os.path.html#os.path.join

Cheers,
Chris