[Python-Dev] w32 drive separator (was: Drive suffix) (original) (raw)
Oleg Broytman phd at phd.pp.ru
Wed Aug 4 17:08:20 CEST 2010
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On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 03:45:45PM +0100, Rob Cliffe wrote:
Is there a way of determining the suffix used after a drive letter to denote a drive, e.g. on Windows the ":" in r"C:\Dir\Subdir\File.Ext" ? Or is the colon so universal that it is considered unnecessary? Should it be in the os module somewhere (as far as I can tell, it isn't, although every other kind of file path component separator seems to be) ?
It's not universal, exactly opposite - it's specific to a rare graphic environment produced by a small company based in Redmond... sorry, I cannot resist. (-: Because of this (':' being too specific) it's built right into ntpath.py
- the module that 'os' module imports when it finds itself running inside that graphic environment. It's used as a character constant all over ntpath.py without any name.
Oleg.
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