What's the perfect (OS independent) way of storing filepaths ?

[Stef Mientki]

Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
> Eric Wertman a écrit :
>>>> I (again) wonder what's the perfect way to store, OS-independent,
>>>> filepaths ?
>>
>> I'm in agreement that perfect probably isn't applicable.  If I were
>> doing this myself, I might store the information in a tuple:
>>
>> base = 'some root structure ('/' or 'C')
>
> make it "C:\"
wouldn't " C:/"  be more universal and therefor better ?
>
>> path = ['some','set','of','path','names']
>> filename = 'somefile.ext'
>>
>> pathdata = (root,path,filename)
>>
>> and write a couple of simple functions to reconstruct them based on 
>> the os.
>
> like, err, os.path.join ?
Yes (because these functions don't function correctly with i.e pdb, 
which might be due to bugs in pdb).
cheers,
Stef
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