Files in unix and windows

[Travis James Kleeburg]

I am trying to copy files from one directory into another using
shutil.copy. I am having a problem getting a usable path using
os.path.abspath because it doesnt return a string with the extra
backslashes and i was wondering if there was a better system call to use?
I am also looking for a system call so there wont be a problem between windows and
unix.

 

[Jeff Epler]

Which extra (back)slashes do you mean? Do you mean that os.path.abspath
strips the trailing separator characters from its argument?
'.'

This behavior doesn't seem to be specifically documented.

If preserving the trailing '/' when present is important, you can easily
get this behavior using os.path.abspath:
def myabspath(p):
hadsep = p and p[-1] in (os.sep, os.altsep)
p = os.path.abspath(p)
if hadsep: p = p + os.sep
return p
'/etc'

Jeff

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[Byron]

Hi Travis,

You want to use forward slashes with your file names. Backslashes are
used for special character commands, such as "/t" for <tab>, etc.

For Windows:
c:/aFolder/testDocument.txt

For Unix / Linux
/aFolder/testDocument.txt

If you need a relative path, with no drive specified (for Windows), use:
/aFolder/testDocument.txt

Hope this helps,

Byron

 

[Byron]

Opps, correction. "\t" is for <tab> -- I had the slash going the wrong
direction.

Byron
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