Re: How to know a top directory?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Michiel Overtoom wrote:

>I have path "/this/is/path" and I wanna get "/this/is".
>Also I want to use it as platform independent. If I want to pass "c:
>\that\path" then I need to get "c:\that".

>
import os
print os.path.split("/home/user/motoom")[0]
print os.path.split(" c:\\prj\\techni ques\\python")[0]

in this case, os.path.dirname () is more convenient.

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[Grigory Temchenko]

Re: How to know a top directory?

On Aug 23, 5:24 am, Fredrik Lundh <fred...@python ware.comwrote:

Michiel Overtoom wrote:

I have path "/this/is/path" and I wanna get "/this/is".
Also I want to use it as platform independent. If I want to pass "c:
\that\path" then I need to get "c:\that".

>

import os
print os.path.split("/home/user/motoom")[0]
print os.path.split(" c:\\prj\\techni ques\\python")[0]

>
in this case, os.path.dirname () is more convenient.
>
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Thanks a lot!