[Python-Dev] PEP 376 : Changing the .egg-info structure (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sun May 17 00:29:58 CEST 2009


MRAB <google mrabarnett.plus.com> writes:

I'd probably say that TAB is s reasonable character to use, even though it's OK in POSIX; after all, should anyone really be using a control character in a filename?

Even newline characters are valid characters in a filename. Why not go for the safe choice of encoding all filenames using e.g. urllib.quote()? (which has the advantage that usual filenames will stay perfectly readable)



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