On Fri, Mar 18, 2016, at 20:55, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 9:03 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > > Also, special-casing '\0' and '/' is > > lame. Why can't I have "Results 1/2016" as a filename? > > Would you be allowed to have a directory named "Results 1" as well?
If I were designing a new operating from scratch and didn't have to be compatible with anything, I would probably have pathnames be tuples of strings (maybe represented at the low level with percent-escaping), rather than having a directory separator. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list