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. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
