On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 19:59:13 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > > We're talking about Unix. > We're not talking about CP/M, DOS, RSX-11m, Apple-SOS, etc. > That's just your assumption. Track back up the thread and you'll see that the OP didn't mention an OS. He merely said that he was using zlib, and getting unfortunate results when he handled its output, so he could have been using any OS. Rhodri James assumed that the OS was Windows, but it wasn't until the 6th post that Steven D'Aprano mentioned Unix and null characters.
I got sucked into the null trap - sorry - because I actually meant to generalise the discussion into ways of getting a range of unwanted characters into a file name and why its unwise to use a filename without checking it for characters the OS doesn't like before creating a file with it. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org | -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
