Avoid backslash in path Python [duplicate]

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Below you can find a simple script to search text in files. I'm looking for how to be more crossplatform i mean how to avoid '\' in path to look through all dirs and do it with standard library from Python. Because as i know, mac use '/' instead of backslash. Any idea how to do it?

#!/usr/bin/env python def find(text, search_path): res = [] for subdir, dirs, files in os.walk(search_path): for fname in files: if os.path.isfile(subdir + "\\" + fname): with open(subdir + "\\" + fname) as f: for i, line in enumerate(f): if text in line: res.append([fname, i])

While os.path.join is the correct solution, Windows is perfectly happy with / directory separators. — kindall
– kindall, Commented Dec 21, 2016 at 19:58
@mbomb007: Purple Rain is not looking for the PATH separator (typically ':' or ';'), but the directory separator (typically '/' or '\'). — Kevin J. Chase
– Kevin J. Chase, Commented Dec 21, 2016 at 20:55
See "How/where to use os.path.sep?", and the accepted answer from "Differences between use of os.path.join and os.sep concatenation" for better ways to handle directory separators. — Kevin J. Chase
– Kevin J. Chase, Commented Dec 21, 2016 at 21:04

Midiparse · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-21 19:56:04Z

You can use os.path.join to join paths together, for example instead of

subdir + "\\" + fname

you could do

os.path.join(subdir, fname)

mbomb007 · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-21 21:15:56Z

You could use os.sep. This is just showing that you can in fact get the character used by the operating system to separate pathname components if you want, but for concatenating path names, see the other answer on using os.path.join().

The character used by the operating system to separate pathname components. This is '/' for POSIX and '\\' for Windows. Note that knowing this is not sufficient to be able to parse or concatenate pathnames — use os.path.split() and os.path.join() — but it is occasionally useful. Also available via os.path.

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