On Thursday 05 July 2018 11:57:18 Mikhail V wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > In Explorer and the open-file dialog of most applications, they will > > see paths like this: > > > > directory\file name with spaces > > > > with the extension (.jpg, .pdf, .docx etc) suppressed. So by your > > argument, Python needs to accept strings without quotes: > > > > open(directory\file name with spaces, 'r') > > > > and guess which extension you mean. > > > > That would be fun to watch in action. > > I think it's what is called 'English humor'? > Funny (just a little bit). > > Wait a moment - you are well aware of Windows features, > that's suspicious... > > > BTW Explorer with hidden extension that's a sign of > "double-click, drag-and-drop" category of users. > Definitely more advanced users turn on extensions, > or don't even use explorer as a file manager. > > > Linux programmers will > > see paths with spaces and other metacharacters escaped: > > > > directory/file\ name\ with\ spaces.txt > > ick. what I see is escaping of the most frequent Latin character.
ick is a very weak adjective. For a change, why can't windows do it right? Oh wait, its windows so the question is moot. Sigh, and just one of the reasons there are zero windows machines on my premises. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
