code: def get_path_components(directory):
      
      drive, dirs = os.path.splitdrive(directory)
      folders = []
      previous = ""
      while dirs != previous and dirs != "":
          previous = dirs
          dirs, folder = os.path.split(dirs)
          if folder != "":
              folders.append(folder)
      folders.reverse()
      return drive, folders
docs: Breaks a path to a directory into a (drive, list-of-folders) tuple
  
      :param directory:
      :return: a tuple consisting of the drive (if any) and an ordered list of
               folder names