Hi,
I am trying to treat an environment variable as a python list - and I'm sure there must be a standard and simple way to do so. I know that the interpreter itself must use it (to process $PATH / %PATH%, etc) but I am not able to find a simple function to do so.
os.environ['PATH'].split(os.sep) is wrong on Windows for the case when PATH="c:\\A;B";c:\\D; where there is a ';' embedded in the quoted path.
Does anyone know of a simple way (addons ok) which would do it in a cross platform way? If not - I will roll my own. My search has shown that generally people just use the simple split menthod as above and leave it there but it seemed like such a common operation that I believe there must be a way out for it which I am not seeing.
Thanks, Chirayu.
You may be able to bend the csv module to your purpose:
>>> test = """\"c:\\A;B";c:\\D;"""
>>> test1 = os.environ['PATH']
>>> import csv
>>> class path(csv.excel):
... delimiter = ';'
... quotechar = '"'
...
>>> csv.reader([test],path).next()
['c:\\A;B', 'c:\\D', '']
>>> csv.reader([test1],path).next()
['C:\\WINDOWS\\system32', 'C:\\WINDOWS', 'C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\Wbem', 'C:\\Program Files\\ATI Technologies\\ATI Control Panel', 'C:\\PROGRA~1\\ATT\\Graphviz\\bin', 'C:\\PROGRA~1\\ATT\\Graphviz\\bin\\tools', 'C:\\WINDOWS\\system32', 'C:\\WINDOWS', 'C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\Wbem', 'C:\\Program Files\\ATI Technologies\\ATI Control Panel', 'C:\\PROGRA~1\\ATT\\Graphviz\\bin', 'C:\\PROGRA~1\\ATT\\Graphviz\\bin\\tools', 'c:\\python24', 'c:\\python24\\scripts', 'G:\\cabs\\python\\pypy\\py\\bin']
>>>
HTH Michael
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