On 12/08/2010 12:49, drodrig wrote:
A python script I use to backup files on a Windows 2003 server occasionally fails to retrieve the size of a file with a question mark in the name. The exception I get is "OSError #123 The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect". I realize that technically a question mark in the name of a file on Windows is illegal, but nevertheless these files exist on the file system. It seems that they are created by Office 2007 Word, for the most part.
Could you show us the script you're using? I'm not aware of any way to get a question mark into a file name; even using the file namespace prefix \\?\ doesn't allow it as far as I can tell. Where are you seeing the question mark? Is it possible it's a placeholder for an unprintable character rather than an actual question mark? TJG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
