On 11/25/20, Bob van der Poel <b...@mellowood.ca> wrote: > I've got a program which accepts an optional env variable listing a single > or multiple directory for the app to use.
In Unix one would use colon as the preferred delimiter. In Windows, it's a semicolon because DOS paths use colon to designate drives. Python makes the platform's preferred path delimiter available as os.pathsep. A bonus with using semicolon in Windows 10 is that the system environment variable editor implements a multi-line form to edit the value if it detects a drive-like path as the first item. For example, editing "MYPATH=Z:\Spam;foo;bar" splits the value into three single-line text-edit fields containing "Z:\Spam", "foo", and "bar". -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
