The dospath Module

The dospath module, shown in Example 13-1, provides os.path functionality on DOS platforms. You can also use it to handle DOS paths on other platforms.

Example 13-1. Using the dospath Module

File: dospath-example-1.py import dospath file = "/my/little/pony" print "isabs", "=>", dospath.isabs(file) print "dirname", "=>", dospath.dirname(file) print "basename", "=>", dospath.basename(file) print "normpath", "=>", dospath.normpath(file) print "split", "=>", dospath.split(file) print "join", "=>", dospath.join(file, "zorba") isabs => 1 dirname => /my/little basename => pony normpath => mylittlepony split => ('/my/little', 'pony') join => /my/little/ponyzorba

Note that Python's DOS support can use both forward ( / ) and backward slashes ( ) as directory separators.