os.path.join doubt

[Westley Martínez]

'C:\\Users\\me\\Documents\\..\\Pictures\\images\\my.jpg' is a valid
path. .. means parent, not 'go back a directory'. But you should really
be trying this:

p1 = os.environ['HOMEPATH']
p2 = os.path.join(p1, 'Pictures', 'images', 'my.jpg')

On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 20:46 -0800, harryos wrote:

> In windows ,I tried this
> 
> p1 = "C:\Users\me\Documents"
> p2 = "..\Pictures\images\my.jpg"
> 
> print os.path.join(p1,p2)
> This gives
> 'C:\\Users\\me\\Documents\\..\\Pictures\\images\\my.jpg'
> 
> I expected I would get
> 'C:\\Users\\me\\Pictures\\images\\my.jpg'
> 
> I thought os.path.join would join the paths more intelligently..Any
> idea why this happens ?
> harry
> 
> 


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