New submission from Tom Edwards:
Consider this script:
f = open(bugtest.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 correct.
Now consider this script:
f =
Changes by Tim Golden m...@timgolden.me.uk:
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Tim Golden added the comment:
Colons are valid in filenames to introduce Alternate Data Stream:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc422524.aspx
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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 something that in
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R. David Murray added the comment:
Python just exposes the OS filename semantics, it doesn't judge them :)
This is just as true on linux as it is on Windows.
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