Environment vars

[Bob van der Poel]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 1:41 PM dn via Python-list <python-list at python.org>
wrote:

> On 26/11/2020 05:46, Bob van der Poel wrote:
> > I've got a program which accepts an optional env variable listing a
> single
> > or multiple directory for the app to use. I've done a bit of a search and
> > see both a comma and semicolon being used/suggested as a path separator.
> > Any consensus on which is better?
>
>
> Further to comments about some users expecting one option, whereas
> others may be thinking of another...
>
>
> Herewith an irreverent article from "ElReg".
>
> NB Do not read "The Register" unless you can cope with sardonic,
> British, humor; and especially if you do not believe that "confession is
> good for the soul"!
>
> It's always DNS, especially when a sysadmin makes a hash of their
> semicolons
> Remember the days when 'we made it up as we went along'?
> Richard Speed Mon 23 Nov 2020 // 08:15 UTC
> https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/23/who_me/
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This article clearly represents things which could go wrong in the good old
days. Those days are gone forever and things like that could never go wrong
today :)