On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 14:57:14 +0000, rumours say that Michael Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written:
[snip: use 'open' in preference to 'file'] >To be honest I doubt open will be extended in this manner. I can see >the Pythoneers adding, say, a keyword argument to open to allow a URL >instead, but just changing the current behavior would be too risky. Plus, >what happens if I have a file named "http://www.python.org/";? I don't know in what filesystem you can have such a file name [1]. Slashes ('/') you can (kind of) get away with using \u2215 (DIVISION SLASH) on NTFS or on UTF-8 encoded *nix filenames, but I haven't found a replacement for colon (':'). Using similar glyphs, of course, invalidates the URL... [1] Unless you mean it as a *path name*, which /could/ exist on *nix filesystems (normalised to a directory called 'www.python.org' in the local subdirectory 'http:'), but still could not on NTFS. -- TZOTZIOY, I speak England very best. "Be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving." (from RFC1958) I really should keep that in mind when talking with people, actually... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
