[Pythonmac-SIG] cross platform os.path.nornpath problem

[Martina Oefelein]

Hi Stephen:

> import os
> print os.path.normpath( "foo/goo/file.txt" )# a unix relative path
> (result) >>> :foo/goo/file.txt
>
> Well, of course! "/" are valid chars in a Mac file name, so the 
> operation
> worked as intended. I would have liked to have the result be 
> "file.txt". Is
> there a way within Python 2.2.1 that I could do this with writing our 
> own
> special normalizer?

I'm using urllib for this purpose:

from urllib import url2pathname, pathname2url
print os.path.normpath(url2pathname("foo/goo/file.txt"))

should do the job

ciao
Martina