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I'm not able to see the bigger picture here I think; but basically I have no idea why you would use os.path.join instead of just normal string concatenation? I have mainly used VBScript so I don't understand the point of this function. Portable Write filepath manipulations once and it works across many different platforms, for free. The delimiting character is abstracted away, making your job easier. Smart You no longer need to worry if that directory path had a trailing slash or not . os.path.join will add it if it needs to. Clear Using os.path.join makes it obvious to other people reading

I found a reference to a file in a log that had the following format: \\?\C:\Path\path\file.log I cannot find a reference to what the sequence of \?\ means. I believe the part between the backslashes refers to a hostname. For instance, on my Windows computer, the following works just fine: dir \\?\C:\ and also, just fine with same result: dir \\.\C:\ Questions: Is there a reference to what the question mark means in this particular path format? What might generate a file path in such a format? Ferenc Deak A long read, but worth reading if you are in this domain: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us

I have a path (including directory and file name). I need to test if the file-name is a valid, e.g. if the file-system will allow me to create a file with such a name. The file-name has some unicode characters in it. It's safe to assume the directory segment of the path is valid and accessible ( I was trying to make the question more gnerally applicable, and apparently I wen too far ). I very much do not want to have to escape anything unless I have to. I'd post some of the example characters I am dealing with, but apparently they get automatically removed by the stack-exchange system. Anyways

Given a folder path (like C:\Random Folder ), how can I find a file in it that holds a certain extension, like txt ? I assume I'll have to do a search for *.txt in the directory, but I'm not sure how I'm supposed to start this search in the first place. Look at the System.IO.Directory class and the static method GetFiles . It has an overload that accepts a path and a search pattern. Example: string[] files = System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(path, "*.txt"); You could use the Directory class Directory.GetFiles(path, "*.txt", SearchOption.AllDirectories) It's quite easy, actually. You can use the