how to call os.path.join() on a list ...

[funkyj]

I want to call os.path.join() on a list instead of a variable list of
arguments.  I.e.

    [scr-misc] (186:0)$ python
    iPython 2.4 (#2, Feb 18 2005, 16:39:27)
    [GCC 2.95.4 20020320 [FreeBSD]] on freebsd4
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
information.
    m>>>
    >>> import os
    >>> import string
    >>> p = os.environ['PWD']
    >>> p
    '/tmp/a/b/c/d'
    >>> os.path.join(string.split(p, os.sep))
    ['', 'tmp', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd']
    >>>

the value returned by os.path.join() is obviously not the desired
result ...

Sure, I can hack my own version of os.path.join() by using os.sep but
that does not seem very pythonic.

In lisp one would do something like

    (funcall  #'os.path.join  (string.split p os.sep))

What is the python idiom for callling a function like os.path.join()
that takes a variable number of arguments when you currently have the
arguements in a list variable?

I'm curious about the answer to the question above but in the meantime
I'll hack "my.path.join()' that takes a single list as an argument and
move on with my little project.

Regards,
  fj