How to remove bad path characters in Python?

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I think the safest approach here is to just replace any suspicious characters. So, I think you can just replace (or get rid of) anything that isn’t alphanumeric, -, _, a space, or a period. And here’s how you do that:

import re
re.sub(r'[^\w_. -]', '_', filename)

The above escapes every character that’s not a letter, '_', '-', '.' or space with an '_'. So, if you’re looking at an entire path, you’ll want to throw os.sep in the list of approved characters as well.

Here’s some sample output:

In [27]: re.sub(r'[^\w\-_\. ]', '_', r'some\*-file._n\\ame')
Out[27]: 'some__-file._n__ame'

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