[Tutor] simply moving files]]

[Alan Gauld]

"David" <david at abbottdavid.com> wrote

> Forwarded to the list, I would also like to understand the forward slash;
> os.system("mv %s/%s %s" % (src, fnames, dst))

The slash separates the file path, src,  from the filename.

Thus if src is /foo/bar/baz
and fnames is spam

then %s/%s becomes

/foo/bar/baz/spam

Another way of doing the same thing would be with join:

'/'.join([src,fnames])

or for platform independance:

os.sep.join([src,fnames])

HTH,

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Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
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