[issue23463] Incorrect behaviour when opening files containing colons on Windows

2015-02-14 Thread Tom Edwards
Tom Edwards added the comment: Ha! What a feature. Thanks for the link. Maybe I'm rehashing old arguments, but I still think that Python's behaviour in this case is wrong. This is very surprising behaviour to anyone who isn't intimately familiar with NTFS and should not be so

[issue23463] Incorrect behaviour when opening files containing colons on Windows

2015-02-14 Thread Tom Edwards
New submission from Tom Edwards: Consider this script: f = open("bug>test.txt",'w') f.write("hello") f.close() On Windows the first line will throw an OSError exception because the character '>' is not valid in an NTFS filename. This is

[issue17213] ctypes loads wrong version of C runtime, leading to error message box from system

2014-01-26 Thread Tom Edwards
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[issue17213] ctypes loads wrong version of C runtime, leading to error message box from system

2014-01-26 Thread Tom Edwards
Tom Edwards added the comment: Still an issue in 3.3.3. Igor's fix still works, thankfully. -- nosy: +Artfunkel versions: +Python 3.3 -Python 2.7 ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/is