How to use "/" (directory separator) in both Linux and Windows in Python?

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00:00 Question
00:45 Accepted answer (Score 321)
01:10 Answer 2 (Score 154)
01:28 Answer 3 (Score 88)
01:40 Answer 4 (Score 67)
02:14 Thank you

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1601...

Answer 2 links:
[os.sep]: http://docs.python.org/3.3/library/os.ht...

Answer 3 links:
[os.path.normpath(pathname)]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.pat...

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 342

Use os.path.join(). Example: os.path.join(pathfile,"output","log.txt").

In your code that would be: rootTree.write(os.path.join(pathfile,"output","log.txt"))

ANSWER 2

Score 177

Use:

import os
print os.sep

to see how separator looks on a current OS.
In your code you can use:

import os
path = os.path.join('folder_name', 'file_name')

ANSWER 3

Score 98

You can use os.sep:

>>> import os
>>> os.sep
'/'

ANSWER 4

Score 73

os.path.normpath(pathname) should also be mentioned as it converts / path separators into \ separators on Windows. It also collapses redundant uplevel references... i.e., A/B and A/foo/../B and A/./B all become A/B. And if you are Windows, these all become A\B.