The posixpath Module

The posixpath module, shown in Example 13-4, provides os.path functionality on Unix and other POSIX-compatible platforms. You can also use it to handle POSIX paths on other platforms. In addition, it can be used to process URLs.

Example 13-4. Using the posixpath Module

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