On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:44:45 -0500, r0g wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm trying to validate some user input which is for the most part simple > regexery however I would like to check filenames and I would like this > code to be multiplatform. > > I had hoped the os module would have a function that would tell me if a > proposed filename would be valid on the host system but it seems not. I > have considered whitelisting but it seems a bit unfair to make the rest > of the world suffer the naming restrictions of windows. Moreover it > seems both inelegant and hard work to research the valid file/directory > naming conventions of every platform that this app could conceivably run > on and write regex's for all of them so...
That's probably why nobody has written a function for the os module to do the same... and just wait until you get into the murky universe of cross- platform Unicode filenames. Honestly, I think your best bet is to just trust the file system to recognize a bad file name and raise an exception. What counts as a bad file name is surprisingly hard to define, especially if you want to be cross-platform. See here for more details: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/295135/turn-a-string-into-a-valid- filename-in-python -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list