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• all single dot components of the path must be removed. For example, "foo/./bar" should be normalized to "foo/bar".
• all double dots components of the path must be removed, along with their parent directory. For example, "foo/bar/../baz" should be normalized to "foo/baz".
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def normalize_file_path(path): | |
#assumptions: valid path does not start with '../' or '/..' | |
if path.startswith('../') or path.startswith('/..'): | |
return None | |
#normalize all the double dots first | |
double_dot_index = path.find('/..') | |
if double_dot_index > -1: | |
#get the parent dir | |
parent_dir_index = path.rfind('/', 0, double_dot_index) | |
#handle case if parent dir is on 1st level (e.g. foo/../bar) | |
if parent_dir_index == -1: | |
parent_dir_index = 0 | |
#normalize by removing the parent dir & double dots | |
path_to_remove = path[parent_dir_index:double_dot_index+3] | |
path = path.replace(path_to_remove, '') #may remove multiple occurences but it's ok | |
#recurse function passing the modified path | |
return normalize_file_path(path) | |
#normalize the single dots next | |
dot_index = path.find('./') | |
if dot_index > -1: | |
#normalize by removing the single dot | |
path = path.replace(path[dot_index:dot_index+2], '') | |
#recurse function passing the modified path | |
return normalize_file_path(path) | |
#path is fully normalized | |
return path | |
paths = [] | |
paths.append('foo/bar/../baz') | |
paths.append('foo/../bar/../baz') | |
paths.append('foo/./bar') | |
paths.append('foo/./bar1/./bar2') | |
paths.append('/./bar/baz') | |
paths.append('../foo') | |
paths.append('/../foo') | |
paths.append('./foo') | |
paths.append('/./foo') | |
for path in paths: | |
print '%s : %s' % (path.ljust(30, ' '), normalize_file_path(path)) | |
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