ignoring the platforms os.sep, and always using r"/" about pathvalidate HOT 1 CLOSED

@bschollnick
Thank you for your report.

The filepath can not start with os.sep (eg. "/users/benjamin/test.zip")

This issue had fixed at pathvalidate 2.2.2:

>>> from pathvalidate import sanitize_filepath
>>> sanitize_filepath(r"\users\benjamin\test\test1.zip")
'/users/benjamin/test/test1.zip'

sanitize_filepath does not seem to respect the os.sep setting of the platform it is running on:

You can get your expected results if you specify the platform argument to "windows" or "auto" to sanitie_filepath.

>>> sanitize_filepath(r"users\benjamin\test\test1.zip", platform="windows")
'users\\benjamin\\test\\test1.zip'
>>> sanitize_filepath(r"users\benjamin\test\test1.zip", platform="auto")
'users\\benjamin\\test\\test1.zip'

In default, sanitize_filepath normalize a file path to be platform-independent.

from pathvalidate.