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os.path.join - qmfoam - Nov-07-2020 This has me confused as to why it does not work: import os PARENT_DIR = '/Volumes/Sidekick/SEER/Trip' SOURCE_DIR = '/data/source' # first do as concatenation and show result OUT_DIR = PARENT_DIR + SOURCE_DIR Print(OUT_DIR) # Now, do using os.path.join and show resultOUT1_DIR = os.path.join(PARENT_DIR, SOURCE_DIR) Print(OUT1_DIR) Anyone have any ideas on what is happening?TNX RE: os.path.join - bowlofred - Nov-07-2020 Quote:Help on function join in module posixpath: Your second path starts with a separator, so it is considered an absolute path. Therefore the first path is discarded. >>> os.path.join('/Volumes/Sidekick/SEER/Trip', '/data/source') '/data/source' >>> os.path.join('/Volumes/Sidekick/SEER/Trip', 'data/source') '/Volumes/Sidekick/SEER/Trip/data/source' RE: os.path.join - qmfoam - Nov-08-2020 (Nov-07-2020, 06:14 PM)bowlofred Wrote:Quote:Help on function join in module posixpath: Thank you |