Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 6:47 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: >> A far more convenient escaping scheme could have been devised for >> pathnames. > > Definitely. We should treat file names like domain names. "Bücher.ch" > gets represented internally as "xn--bcher-kva.ch". That would solve > all the problems, and there's no way that it could create more.
Note that Python can express any text string, including one with a quote character. I don't know if Python's escaping scheme is creating more problems than it is solving. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list