Re: path slashes cleaning

[Francesco Guerrieri]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Mathieu Prevot <mathieu.prevot @gmail.comwrote :

Hi,
>
for scripts that take arguments, I would like to remove the trailing
slash if it's present.
>
Is there something else than:
>
a='/usr/local/lib/'
if a[-1] == '/':
a = list(a)
a.pop()
''.join(a)
>
Thanks,
Mathieu

a.rstrip('/') does the job.

bye,
Francesco

[Jason Scheirer]

Re: path slashes cleaning

On Sep 4, 6:32 am, "Francesco Guerrieri" <f.guerri...@gm ail.com>
wrote:

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Mathieu Prevot <mathieu.pre... @gmail.com>wrot e:

Hi,

>

for scripts that take arguments, I would like to remove the trailing
slash if it's present.

>

Is there something else than:

>

a='/usr/local/lib/'
if a[-1] == '/':
 a = list(a)
 a.pop()
 ''.join(a)

>

Thanks,
Mathieu

>
a.rstrip('/') does the job.
>
bye,
Francesco

[1]: import os.path
[2]: os.path.normpat h('/usr/bin')
'/usr/bin'
[3]: os.path.normpat h('/usr/bin/')
'/usr/bin'

And on windows:
[1]: import os.path
[2]: os.path.normpat h(r'c:\data')
'c:\\data'
[3]: os.path.normpat h('c:\\data\\')
'c:\\data'

Use the functions provided in os.path.