Larry Bates wrote: > IMHO leading and/or trailing spaces in filenames is asking for > incompatibilities with cross-platform file access.
With what platforms specifically? > Much like > using single-quote in filenames which are perfectly legal in > DOS/Windows, but Linux doesn't like much. Uh... What Linux are you using? And what FS? $ touch "'" && ls ' $ rm "'" $ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list