[Tutor] Regex for Filesystem path (Asad)

[Alan Gauld]

On 08/11/2018 02:55, Asad wrote:

> Why is it putting \  this breaks the unix path it should be:
> 
> /a/b/c/d/test/28163133/22326541   ===> for unix platform logs
> 
> \a\b\c\d\test\28163133\22326541  ===> for windows platform logs

os.path.join uses the separator that is correct for your OS.
Since you are running on Windows it uses \

The preferred way of constructing a path is to do it
all in os.path, that way, regardless of OS it will always
produce the right thing. But it can get a bit clunky
(especially with Windows drive letters included) so
most folks cheat and use hard coded strings. But as you
discovered that can lead to mixed separators.

Try:

os.path.join('a','b','c','d','test')



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