Python in a Nutshell

Name

join

Synopsis

join(path,*paths)

Returns a string that joins the argument strings with the appropriate path separator for the current platform. For example, on Unix, exactly one slash character / separates adjacent path components. If any argument is an absolute path, join ignores all previous components. For example:

print os.path.join('a/b', 'c/d','e/f')        
# on Unix prints: a/b/c/d/e/f
print os.path.join('a/b', '/c/d', 'e/f')      
# on Unix prints: /c/d/e/f

The second call to os.path.join ignores its first argument 'a/b', since its second argument '/c/d' is an absolute path.