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Asked: 2026-06-13T21:13:46+00:00

I have a string which contains user input for a directory address on a

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I have a string which contains user input for a directory address on a linux system. I need to check if it is properly formatted and could be an address in Python 2.6. It’s important to note that this is not on the current system so I can’t check if it is there using os.path nor can I try to create the directories as the function will be run many times.

These strings will always be absolute paths, so my first thought was to look for a leading slash. From there I wondered about checking if the rest of the string only contains valid characters and does not contain any double slashes. This seems a little clunky, any other ideas?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Sure the question has been edited since writing this but:

    There is the os.path.isabs(PATH) which will tell you if the path is absolute or not.

    Return True if path is an absolute pathname. On Unix, that means it begins with a slash, on Windows that it begins with a (back)slash after chopping off a potential drive letter.

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