Thanks for your replies, guys.
As it happens, what sparked the question was trying to determine in a
platform-independent way whether a path consisted of a bare drive
specification (e.g. "C:"). I guess
os.path.splitdrive(MyPath)[1] == ""
takes care of that.
Rob Cliffe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Guido van Rossum" <guido at python.org>
To: "Rob Cliffe" <rob.cliffe at btinternet.com>
Cc: "Python-Dev" <python-dev at python.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 4:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Drive suffix
It's Windows specific syntax and always a colon. Use
os.path.splitdrive() to parse it. I don't think there's a need to add
a named constant for it (you're the first to ask, in my memory).
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Rob Cliffe <rob.cliffe at btinternet.com>
wrote:
> Is there a way of determining the suffix used after a drive letter to
> denote
> a drive, e.g. on Windows the ":" in r"C:\Dir\Subdir\File.Ext" ? Or is the
> colon so universal that it is considered unnecessary? Should it be in the
> os module somewhere (as far as I can tell, it isn't, although every other
> kind of file path component separator seems to be) ?
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