Tags » path-problems

• Why is os.sep insufficient for path operations?

  Digging into a throwaway comment in the Python documentation.

• A tale of two path separators

  macOS allows both the slash and colon as path separators, and this caused me no small amount of confusion.

• S3 prefixes are not directories

  Although an S3 prefix looks a lot like a directory path, they aren’t the same. Whether or not you include a trailing slash can change the behaviour.

• S3 keys are not file paths

  Although an S3 key looks a lot like a file path, they aren’t always the same, and the distinction can trip you up.