On 27Apr2009 23:27, Simon Cross <hodgestar+python...@gmail.com> wrote: | On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 9:48 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: | > As Cameron says: it's out of the scope of the PEP. It really depends how | > the operating system deals with them. Most likely, the files are not | > accessible - not only not from Python, but also not accessible from | > any other Unix program. Details depend on the specific operating system | > software being used, and the specific parameters passed to it. | | $ touch $'\xFF\xAA\xFF' | $ vi $'\xFF\xAA\xFF' | $ egrep foo $'\xFF\xAA\xFF' | | All worked fine from my Bash shell with locale encoding set to UTF-8. | I can also open the created file from the GNOME editor file dialog (it | even tells me the filename is not valid in my locale's encoding). The | Nedit editor also worked. So far I haven't found anything that failed.
Yes, they would. Are you doing that on a real UNIX filesystem (ext2/3/4, XFS etc)? I'm not sure whether you're arguing for or against the propsal here, btw. This would make a file with a presumably UTF-8-invalid name. Martin's proposal would cheerfully map that losslessly to a string. Is there a problem here? -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Stepwise Refinement n. A sequence of kludges K, neither distinct or finite, applied to a program P aimed at transforming it into the target program Q. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
