Path Separator in Python 3

Question

I have two strings:

C:\Data

and another folder

Foo1

I need, the windows output to be

C:\Data\Foo1

and the Linux output to be

/data/foo1

assuming /data is in linux. Is there any constant separator that can be used in Python, that makes it easy to use irrespective of underlying OS?

Answer 1

Yes, python provides os.sep, which is that character, but for your purpose, the function os.path.join() is what you are looking for.

>>> os.path.join("data", "foo1")
"data/foo1"