[Pythonmac-SIG] about this x-platform stuff...

[Richard Gordon]

I have been following the thread about line endings with some 
interest and wanted to ask about a companion issue that I fight with 
on a regular basis- path separators for different platforms.

Is there a generally accepted approach for adjusting these on the fly 
in python (i.e., I write a script on Mac and then try to run it on 
unix where it craps out because of the use of : rather than / as a 
separator)? It seems like the perl approach was to use some variable 
and actually write the script with this:
infile = 'thisdir'.theSep.'thatdir'.theSep.'otherdir'.theSep.'myfile';

The script would at some point test for OS and set the variable to /, 
\ or : according to the results and, in theory, you never had to 
worry about it aside from the fact that the code was even more 
illegible than usual.

Is there a more elegant way to deal with this in python? Thanks.







Richard Gordon
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