[Python-Dev] PEP 383: Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces (original) (raw)

R. David Murray rdmurray at bitdance.com
Mon Apr 27 11:32:42 CEST 2009

On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 at 01:40, Glenn Linderman wrote:

Yes. My suggested use of ? is a visible character that is illegal in Windows file names, thus causing no valid Windows file names to be visually mangled. It is also a character that should be avoided in POSIX names because:

1) it is known to be illegal on Windows, and thus non-portable 2) it is hard to write globs that match ? without allowing matches of other characters as well 3) it must be quoted to specify it on a command line That said, someone provided a case where it is "easy" to get ? in POSIX file names. The remaining question is whether that is a reasonable use case, a frequent use case, or a stupid use case; and whether the resulting visible

Reasonable I don't know, but frequent (FSDO frequent) and out of our control yes. It happens often when downloading files with wget, for example.

--David

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