the input would be something like this
"
/usr/bin/blah
/sbin/blah
/usr/share/man/man1/blah
"

for line in lines:
			if os.path.islink(line.rstrip()):
				main.write("ln -sf "+os.path.realpath(line.rstrip())+" "+line.rstrip()+"\n")
				remove.write("rm "+line.rstrip()+"\n")
			else:
				localdest=line.rstrip().split("/")[len(line.rstrip().split("/"))-1]+str(counter)
				folders = line.rstrip().split("/")
				folder = ""
				for fol in folders[:-1)]:
					folder = folder+fol+"/"
				dirs.append(folder)
				#main.write("if [ ! -d "+folder+" ] ; then mkdir -p "+folder+" ; fi\n")
				shutil.copyfile(line.strip(), localdest)
				shutil.copymode(line.strip(), localdest)
				main.write("cp -p "+localdest+" "+line.rstrip()+"\n")
				remove.write("rm "+line.rstrip()+"\n")
				counter+=1
				print(dirs)



and the way i want dirs to look is
['/usr/bin','/sbin','/usr/share/man/man1']


but currently, with the way i am doing it
it is coming out like
['/', '/sbin/']
['/', '/sbin/', '/sbin/']
['/', '/sbin/', '/sbin/', '/sbin/']
['/', '/sbin/', '/sbin/', '/sbin/', '/sbin/']
['/', '/sbin/', '/sbin/', '/sbin/', '/sbin/', '/sbin/']
['/', '/sbin/', '/sbin/', '/sbin/', '/sbin/', '/sbin/', '/sbin/']