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  Re: program to generate data helpful in finding duplicate large files Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-09-18 20:08 -0400

#78053 — Re: program to generate data helpful in finding duplicate large files

5On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 11:45:41 -0700, Chris Kaynor
<ckaynor@zindagigames.com> declaimed the following:

>On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 11:11 AM, David Alban <extasia@extasia.org> wrote:


>>
>> *start_directory = re.sub( '/+$', '', args.start_directory )*
>>
>
>I'm not sure this is actually needed. Its also not platform-independent as
>some platforms (eg, Windows) primary uses "\" instead.
>

	Not to mention that os.path has lots of functions for manipulating file
names/paths... Along with normpath() to set the /, \ dichotomy to the local
system.
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	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
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