[Tutor] simply moving files]]

[David]

Alan Gauld wrote:
> 
> "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,
> 
Thank you Alan, you are a very good teacher, you should write a book :)

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