this actually came up fairly recently on this very list -- go poke around in the archives to find it.

But the short version is that there is no clear definition of a "sanitized" filename -- see that SO thread to get the idea. So you really want a solution that works for your use case, so not really a candidate for the standard library.

There are a number of packages on PyPi that might help:

https://pypi.org/project/awesome-slugify/

just to name two.

-CHB

On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 10:51 PM Charles Machalow <csm10495@gmail.com> wrote:

I was reading https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7406102/create-sane-safe-filename-from-any-unsafe-string and was thinking that functionality to create safe paths from unsafe paths and check if a Path would work on a given filesystem would well in Pathlib.
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