Backslash at the end of python string won't be passed through when returned from function

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I am create a decently complex program and need to add logging to the whole thing. For this I have created a separate file which allows me to easily create a new logger with everything I need for it. Though I am experiencing problem with getting the absolute path of the log folder since the path is returned as a string.

The code here is the code I used to detect which OS it is loaded on, and this works fine, maybe there is a better way to achieve what I am trying to do here, but for now I am having issues of the last backslash in the win32 OS not returning with the entire path

def __get_logging_path(log_folder):
    if sys.platform == 'win32':
        return os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__)) + f'\{log_folder}\')
    elif sys.platform == 'linux':
        return os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__) + f'/{log_folder}/'))
    else:
        raise OSError(f'Untested OS: {sys.platform}')

I have tried a couple things to replace the following code

return os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__)) + f'\{log_folder}\')

Below are all the different option I have tried an none of them have worked so far

return os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__)) + '\' + log_folder + '\')
return os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__)) + r'\' + log_folder + r'\')
return os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__)) + f'\{log_folder}' + r'\')

There is a couple more, but generally just don’t work getting

Asked By: Sol3N

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Answer 1

Though I have not figured out what the issue with the original problem was, (old)

I did manage to get it working with the suggestion of using pathlib.Path

By looking in to the documentation a bit I managed to change the code above in to a single line of code

Path(__file__).parent.joinpath(log_folder, f'{file_name}.log')

This points to a .log file in a subdirectory of the directory of the currently executing file

EDIT:
I recently through comments I have found out my mistake. I managed to miss the fact that os.path.join() creates a valid path from given strings, instead of joining the strings together.
Therefore the solution to the original problem seems to be as follows:
os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), log_folder, log_file))

Answered By: Sol3N

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