Environment vars

[Bob van der Poel]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 12:43 PM Eryk Sun <eryksun at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11/25/20, Bob van der Poel <bob at 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".
>

Ahha! Didn't know about os.pathsep. Seems simple enough to use that and be
done with it.

I'm just using str.split() just now. Is there a os.splitpath()? I don't see
anything in the docs.