Add a function that splits a path into a (drive, root, tail)
triad:
splitdrive()
Similarly to splitdrive()
, a splitroot()
function would ensure that drive + root + tail
is the same as the input path.
The extra level of detail reflects an extra step in the Windows 'current path' hierarchy -- Windows has both a 'current drive', and a 'current directory' for one or more drives, which results in several kinds of non-absolute paths, e.g. 'foo/bar', '/foo/bar', 'X:foo/bar'
This three-part model is used successfully by pathlib, which exposes root as an attribute, and combines drive + root
as an attribute called anchor. The anchor has useful properties, e.g. comparing two paths anchors can tell us whether a relative_to()
operation is possible.
Pathlib has its own implementation of splitroot()
, but its performance is hamstrung by its need for OS-agnosticism. By moving the implementation into ntpath
and posixpath
we can take advantage of OS-specific rules to improve pathlib performance.
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