On 2012-11-05, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > On Mon, 5 Nov 2012 17:39:35 +1100, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> > declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > >> >> It's nothing to do with operating system. File names are names, and >> spaces in them are seldom worth the hassle unless you manipulate those >> files solely using a GUI. >> > At least spaces are visible. > > CP/V would accept non-printable characters in file names... Things > like BEL were valid -- but figure out where in the name the BEL > character was when listing the directory contents <G>
Don't most OSes allow non-printing characters in filenames? VMS and Unix always have. AFAIK, there are only two characters that can't appear in a Unix filename: '\x00' and '/'. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I feel better about at world problems now! gmail.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list