How to check if a path *could* be a legal path?

[Gerrit]

Maciej Sobczak wrote:
> 1.
> s = 'C:\file.txt'
> 
> the above is potentially a valid path on my system.
> 
> 2.
> s = 'cc:/^- =#jk\kj+.+?! :-)'
> 
> the above is rather invalid and I would like to check it somehow before 
> I even try to create the file.
> 
> Does the Python library contain a functionality that allows to achieve 
> this goal?

No.
It's different on different platforms.
On Unix, for example, everything without \0 (ascii 0) is legal.
I don't know the rules Windows needs, but apparantly they are more
strict, or else the second path would be potentially valid as well.

There may be a 3rd party package that has this functionality, however,
or something in a windows-specific package.

Can't you pass it to exists? Maybe os.path.exists makes a different
between ENOENT and invalid paths...

Gerrit.

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