[Python-ideas] os.path.join

[Ben Finney]

anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>
writes:

> Right. But I am working more with URL paths nowadays. In there if I
> want to join two paths, no matter if 2nd starts with slash or not, I
> don't really expect the 2nd to rewrite the first.

Then you're not using the right tool: ‘os.path’ is specifically about
filesystem paths. URLs follow different rules, as you say; you should be
using ‘urllib.parse’ <URL:http://docs.python.org/3/library/urllib.parse.html>.

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