[Tutor] os.path.basename() issue with path slashes

[Dayo Adewunmi]

Shashwat Anand wrote:
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> <snip>
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>       for dirname, subdirname, filenames in os.walk(absolutePath):
>           for filename in filenames:
>               print "<a href=\"%s/%s\"><img src=\"%s\%s\" /></a>"
>     %(currentdir,filename,currentdir,filename)
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>
> I see a small typo here.
> print "<a href=\"%s/%s\"><img src=\"%s\%s\" /></a>" 
> %(currentdir,filename,currentdir,filename)  should rather be print "<a 
> href=\"%s/%s\"><img src=\"%s/%s\" /></a>" 
> %(currentdir,filename,currentdir,filename) ..
> notice the slashes "%s/%s" in href tag and "%s\%s" in img tag.
>
> >>> filename = '1.jpg'
> >>> absolutePath = os.getcwd()
> >>> currentdir = os.path.basename(absolutePath)
> >>> print "<a href=\"%s/%s\"><img src=\"%s/%s\" /></a>" 
> %(currentdir,filename,currentdir,filename)
> <a href="Desktop/1.jpg"><img src="Desktop/1.jpg" /></a>
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> ~l0nwlf
Arrrgh. Didn't see that forwardslash I put in there. It's fixed and 
works now.
Thanks!

Dayo