Parsing a path to components

[eliben]

On Jun 7, 10:15 am, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_... at gmx.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:57:03 -0700, s0suk3 wrote:
> > You can just split the path on `os.sep', which contains the path
> > separator of the platform on which Python is running:
>
> > components = pathString.split(os.sep)
>
> Won't work for platforms with more than one path separator and if a
> separator is repeated.  For example r'\foo\\bar/baz//spam.py' or:
>
> In [140]: os.path.split('foo//bar')
> Out[140]: ('foo', 'bar')
>
> In [141]: 'foo//bar'.split(os.sep)
> Out[141]: ['foo', '', 'bar']
>
> Ciao,
>         Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch

Can you recommend a generic way to achieve this ?
Eli