On 2017-10-10 10:58, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 8:56 PM, Tim Golden <m...@timgolden.me.uk>
wrote:
My understanding of the document you linked to
is that the colon still has special meaning, and thus you can't use
it
in arbitrary file names.
In fact its presence in that filename creates a (usually hidden) data
stream
piggybacked onto that file which has the name "abc" into which the
data is
written.
So, following on, the follow works:
assert open("temp.txt:abc").read() == "abc"
Cool. Does it require that temp.txt exist first? And if you have
multiple colons (as in the OP's), does the part after the second colon
have to be a type indicator?
ChrisA
No. temp.txt is created empty.
Multiple colons *does* appear to be a syntax error in the filename.
TJG
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