New submission from Holly <hollyrobert...@gmail.com>:
If we use os.mkdir to create a folder as follows:
os.mkdir("C:/test /")
Then we successfully create a folder with name "test ". This folder can be
accessed normally, but it cannot be renamed or deleted. Instead we get the
following error message:
Could not find this item
This is no longer located in C:\. Verify the item's location and try again.
I used Python 3.7.3 (64 bit) and Windows 1809
Obviously this is down to how windows doesn't handle paths particularly nicely,
so it's not really python's fault. However even if it's decided that python
shouldn't handle this then it would be better for an exception to be thrown
rather than creating a corrupt folder.
Note: We can delete the folder by using the Long UNC path, eg. rd "\\?\C:\test "
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components: IO
messages: 347346
nosy: hollyroberts
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: os.mkdir creates invalid folder when path string has trailing space and
slash
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.7
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