Florian Lindner wrote: > I think the best solution would be to use a seperation character: > > dir="/home/florian, /home/john, home/whoever" > > What character would be best to work on various operating systems? (of > what names may a path consist is the question)
I don't think there are any universally-disallowed chars for path names. But I also haven't seen anyone mention os.pathsep yet. Seems like the best choice for a separator char. If you need to run on multiple platforms, your choices seem to be: 1. pick a legal-on-some-systems-but-uncommon-on-all char for dir names as a separator (iirc osx uses : in paths so ; might have to do) 2. use os.pathsep to write platform-specific config files 3. do it another way -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
