On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 9:11 AM, Steve D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > 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.
Yes, but then you'd get dmca-takedown-request.pdf.zip.zip.zip.zip.zip.zip.zip which would also be empty. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
