> On 11 May 2020, at 18:09, Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas > <python-ideas@python.org> wrote: > > More generally, what’s the use case for %-encoding filenames like this? Are > people expecting it to interact transparently with URLs, so if I save a file > “spam\0eggs” in a Python script and then try to browse to file:///spam\0eggs > <file:///spam/0eggs>” in a browser, the browser will convert the \0 character > to %00 the same way my Python script did and therefore find the file?
No. The \0 can never be part of a valid file in Unix, macOS or Windows. Barry
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