Python os.path.join on Windows
To be even more pedantic, the most python doc consistent answer would be:
mypath = os.path.join('c:', os.sep, 'sourcedir')Since you also need os.sep for the posix root path:
mypath = os.path.join(os.sep, 'usr', 'lib')
Windows has a concept of current directory for each drive. Because of that, "c:sourcedir" means "sourcedir" inside the current C: directory, and you'll need to specify an absolute directory.
Any of these should work and give the same result, but I don't have a Windows VM fired up at the moment to double check:
"c:/sourcedir"os.path.join("/", "c:", "sourcedir")os.path.join("c:/", "sourcedir")
To be pedantic, it's probably not good to hardcode either / or \ as the path separator. Maybe this would be best?
mypath = os.path.join('c:%s' % os.sep, 'sourcedir')or
mypath = os.path.join('c:' + os.sep, 'sourcedir')