How can I normalize/collapse paths or URLs in Python in OS independent way?
I tried to use os.normpath in order to convert http://example.com/a/b/c/../ to http://example.com/a/b/ but it doesn't work on Windows because it does convert the slash to backslash. sorin Here is how to do it >>> import urlparse >>> urlparse.urljoin("ftp://domain.com/a/b/c/d/", "../..") 'ftp://domain.com/a/b/' >>> urlparse.urljoin("ftp://domain.com/a/b/c/d/e.txt", "../..") 'ftp://domain.com/a/b/' Remember that urljoin consider a path/directory all until the last / - after this is the filename, if any. Also, do not add a leading / to the second parameter, otherwise you will not get the expected