Nested os.path.join()'s

[Grant Edwards]

On 2008-05-05, Paul Scott <pscott at uwc.ac.za> wrote:

> Today, I needed to concatenate a bunch of directory paths and files
> together based on user input to create file paths. I achieved this
> through nested os.path.join()'s which I am unsure if this is a good
> thing or not.
>
> example:
>
> if os.path.exists(os.path.join(basedir,picdir)) == True :
>     blah blah

That's not an example of nested os.path.join()'s.

> Question is, is there a better way of doing this? 

I don't think so.

> The above *works* but it looks kinda hackish...

What about it do you think looks hackish?

I supposed you could do this instead:

  path = os.path.join(basedir,picdir)
  if os.path.exists(path) == True :
      blah blah

But I don't really see why that's any better.      

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