From: Richard Kilmer <rich@...>
Date: 2003-03-21T12:53:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Strong advantages over Python

Even better:

File.join('dir1', 'dir2', 'dir3')

-rich

On Thursday, March 20, 2003, at 09:40  PM, Paul Prescod wrote:

>> Some examples of the benefits of pure OOP. I use "have a nice 
>> day".split
>> a fair bit, but Python can do that too so it makes it less enjoyable. 
>> ;)
>> ['dir1', 'dir2', 'filename'].join(File::Separator) might be a better
>> example.
>
> >>> import os
> >>> print os.sep
> /
> >>> os.sep.join(["dir1", "dir2", "dir3"])
> 'dir1/dir2/dir3'
> >>> print type(os.sep)
> <type 'str'>