os.path.dirname adds unremoveable spaces?

[Jason]

And just as expected, after an hour of searching google groups for an 
answer, I post the question only to figure it out 10 seconds later.  
Sheesh!

I used os.path.join and all is well.




Jason <asldfkjasldfj at asldfkjasldkfjasdf.com> wrote in
news:Xns94CE7B19D78E7nonenonecom at 24.93.43.119: 

> Here's the code I'm using:
> 
> ####################################
> import os, string
> for root, dirs, files in os.walk('/home/_Comedy'):
>         for file in files:
>                 str = os.path.dirname(file)
>                 print root, str.strip(), "/", file.strip()
> 
> ####################################
> The problem is that even after using strip(), it still prints a list
> like this:
> 
> 
> /home/_Comedy/ISIRTA  / ISIRTA - 1966.03.28 - s02e03 - Ali Baba.mp3
> /home/_Comedy/ISIRTA  / ISIRTA - 1966.04.04 - s02e04 - Nelson.mp3
> /home/_Comedy/ISIRTA  / ISIRTA - 1966.04.18 - s02e06 - Angus Prune.mp3
>  
>                        ^^^^^
>                                ^^^^^
> I can't remove these mystery spaces that I'm pointing to no matter
> what I try.  Neither the directories or filenames have spaces before
> or after them.  Even if they did, they should've been removed when I
> used the strip command.
> 
> Any ideas?
>