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adding path utilities
author Jeff Hammel <jhammel@mozilla.com>
date Mon, 12 Aug 2013 15:14:10 -0700
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1 #!/usr/bin/env python
2
3 """
4 (filesystem) path utilities
5
6 from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12041525/a-system-independent-way-using-python-to-get-the-root-directory-drive-on-which-p
7 """
8
9 import os
10
11 def is_root(path):
12 """is `path` the filesystem root"""
13 return not os.path.split(path)[1]
14
15 def root(path):
16 """return filesystem root of path"""
17 path = os.path.abspath(path)
18 while not is_root(path):
19 path, tail = os.path.split(path)
20 return path
21
22 if __name__ == '__main__':
23 import sys
24 for path in sys.argv[1:]:
25 print root(path)