Thomas Steffen wrote:
Hallo,
I have pathes with different file delimiters
e.g.
/root/dir\mydir/myfile
C:\xxx/hh\gggg/myfile
How can I change the mistaken file delimiters in dependency of the
used os (win or unix) effectively?
unix: /root/dir\mydir --> /root/dir/mydir
win: C:\xxx/hh\gggg/myfile --> C:\xxx\hh\gggg\myfile
Thanks for your hints Thomas
Note that backslashes are only needed for the conventional user experience,
Windows is happy with "/", too. Have a look at os.path.normcase() which
should meet your needs if you are consistently using forward slashes in
your application. Otherwise the following tiny module might do (untested):
<plat.py>
import os
if os.name == "posix":
def normslash(path):
return path.replace("\\", "/")
elif os.name == "nt":
def normslash(path):
return path.replace("/", "\\")
else:
raise Exception("OS not supported: %s" % os.name")
</plat.py>
usage:
import plat
path = plat.normslash(path)
By the way, if you are building paths like so:
path = folder + "/" + filename
Use os.path.join() instead. It will automatically select the right separator
for you.
Peter
