New submission from Boris:
f=open('prn.txt','w')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File pyshell#80, line 1, in module
f=open('prn.txt','w')
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'prn.txt'
Names that fail:
prn.
prn.txt
prn.yourmmama.txt
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Names that do not fail:
prn
Changes by Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr:
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Changes by Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr:
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stage: - resolved
status: open - closed
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Martin Panter added the comment:
I could be wrong, but I thought this was normal Windows behaviour, not related
to Python. Same probably applies to other special names like NUL, COM1.
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nosy: +tim.golden, vadmium, zach.ware
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Steve Dower added the comment:
It's a name reserved by Windows - see
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247.aspx#file_and_directory_names
If you have a full (and 100% resolved) path, you can prefix it with \\?\ (plus
escaping) to access a file by that name, but I
