How to use “/” (directory separator) in both Linux and Windows in Python?

Question

I have written a code in python which uses / to make a particular file in a folder, if I want to use the code in windows it will not work, is there a way by which I can use

Answer 1

Don't build directory and file names your self, use python's included libraries.

In this case the relevant one is os.path. Especially join which creates a new pathname from a directory and a file name or directory and split that gets the filename from a full path.

Your example would be

pathfile=os.path.dirname(templateFile)
p = os.path.join(pathfile, 'output')
p = os.path.join( p, 'log.txt')
rootTree.write(p)