Python path separator [duplicate]

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Is there a proper platform-dependent (or independent?) path separator character somewhere in the Python standard library?

I am not asking about the directory separator / and \, but rather about the PATH separator: : and ;.

Java has java.io.File.pathSeparatorChar and java.io.File.pathSeparator to fulfill this need. Does Python have something similar? A fairly exhaustive search in os.path and pathlib docs yielded nothing, so I am beginning to lose hope.

I am not particularly hung up on the character itself. A function that behaves like os.path.join but for entire paths instead of path elements would be perfectly acceptable, preferable even.

wovano · Accepted Answer · 2023-08-07 13:18:15Z

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Maybe this is what you're looking for:

import os

os.pathsep

os.pathsep is : or ; while os.sep is \ or /.

edited Aug 7, 2023 at 13:18

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