Pathvalidate is a Python library to sanitize/validate a string such as filenames/file-paths/etc.

Features: * Sanitize/Validate a string as a file name or file path * file name/path argument validator/sanitizer for argparse and click * Multi platform support: sanitize/validate file names/paths for a specific platform (Linux/Windows/macOS/Posix) or universal (platform independent) * Multibyte character support

This package contains the Python 3 version of the library.