On Wed, 25 Oct 2017 02:40 am, Lele Gaifax wrote: > Steve D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> writes: > >> But given an empty file, how do you distinguish the empty file you get >> from 'music.mp3' and the identical empty file you get from 'movie.avi'? > > That's simple enough: of course one empty file would be > "music.mp3.zip.zip.zip", while the other would be > "movie.avi.zip.zip.zip.zip.zip"... some sort of > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_memory applied to file system entries > :-)
Does that mean if I name an empty file serenity2-by-joss-whedon.avi.zip.zip.zip.zip.zip Dancerswithnumbers' magic algorithm will recreate the movie from some alternative universe where it actually exists? Awesome. -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
