On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 7:06 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > 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.
Yes it can; however, there is no way within Python to have a string that can represent two strings, which is what directory separators do. Ultimately, all you really get by referencing Python's string literals is an escaping system: "\\" for a backslash, and then you can use "\?" for various special symbols to change their meaning. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
