On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, James Graham wrote:
Veusz let me save a file with a period "." in a descriptor (specifically in a
field name) but wouldn't let me open the same file. Obviously this is a
bug... Is there any actual non-fixable reason for this limitation on
characters?
Hmmm... I'm trying to remember whether there are any assumptions here that
the name is a valid python variable name...
I think we should disallow dots, as this breaks things like the create
dataset dialog which uses eval to evaluate datasets. Dots aren't valid in
python variable names.
How was the dataset created? Presumably not using import.
Options are:
o Allow dots, but things like create dataset will fail
o Disallow dots, but need to find the places where dots are allowed
There's probably a larger issue to do with any non python variable name
names. The importer may even allow numerical names...
Jeremy
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