Question

I need a routine in python to test for a string that contains an absolute path, that is Unix style format.
So that /home/eduard/tmp/chrome-data-dir/file.ext would be a valid path.
But C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe would not be a valid path.

I need also the path to bet tested not contain characters that might be consider special like: *,?

Answer 1

import posixpath
posixpath.isabs('/home/eduard/tmp/chrome-data-dir/file.ext')

posixpath is the implementation of os.path used on Unix-like systems. See also isabs documentation.