On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:02:07 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2010-10-15, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> > wrote: > >> In the Unix world, which includes OS X, text tools tend to have >> difficulty with tabs. Or try naming a file with a newline or carriage >> return in the file name, or a NULL byte. > > How do you create a file with a name that contains a NULL byte?
Use a language or program that doesn't use null-terminated strings. Its quite easy in many BASICs, which often delimit strings by preceeding it with a with a byte count, and you hit Ctrl-SPACE by accident.... -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org | -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list