[Python-Dev] Drive suffix

[Guido van Rossum]

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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