On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 6:15 AM, BartC <b...@freeuk.com> wrote: > On 08/12/2016 03:41, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> >> On Thursday 08 December 2016 12:15, BartC wrote: >> > >>> That's all. I know the value of keeping things straightforward instead >>> of throwing in everything you can think of. The file-matching is done by >>> WinAPI functions. > > >> So you're happy with the fact that there are legitimate file names that >> your >> program simply has no way of dealing with? > > > Perfectly. Such names are illegal on its home OS which is Windows, and > ill-advised elsewhere.
Awesome. Since you're using Windows as your definition of "ill-advised", I take it you assume that file names should be case insensitive, too, right? Cool. Let me know when you've figured out the uppercase and lowercase equivalents of this file name: "ßẞıİiIÅσςσ" ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list