On Tue, Oct 02, 2007, Greg Ewing wrote:
Steven Bethard wrote:
I write quite a few Windows paths, and probably make the final-backslash mistake once a week.
If you were using os.path.join(), as you should be, you wouldn't ever have to write a trailing backslash in a path in the first place. Or any backslashes at all, for that matter.
Wrong. And I just got bitten by this yesterday (no backslashes at all). Consider the difference between cp -a foo bar and cp -a foo/ bar The two are almost identical *except* when foo is a symlink to a directory, then the first form copies the symlink instead of giving a brand-new directory. Which, since foo/ is a template dir that gets modified after copying was a very bad thing. (We moved servers around over the weekend and for convenience's sake made foo a symlink to a new location.) And yes, we *were* using os.path.join(). So trailing slashes (or backslashes) are in fact sometimes required. -- Aahz (aahz@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ The best way to get information on Usenet is not to ask a question, but to post the wrong information.