On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 12:45 AM, Bev in TX <countryon...@gmail.com> wrote: >> * One with an embedded / in the file name > > This is easily done in Finder, where I created a folder named "my/slash”. > When I list it at the command line in Terminal, this shows up as "my:slash”, > with the slash shown as a colon. > If I create a file with a colon in its name at the command line, that file > name acts the same way: > > $ touch ‘my:colon" > $ ls > my:colon > my:slash > > In Finder they both display as: > my/colon > my/slash > > However, if you use Finder’s “Copy item as Pathname” option, then you will > again see the colon. > > /Users/bev/Training/myPython/pygroup/files/my:colon > /Users/bev/Training/myPython/pygroup/files/my:slash > > But if you paste that folder’s name in Finder’s “Go to Folder” option, it > converts it to the following, and goes to that folder: > > /Users/bev/Training/myPython/pygroup/files/my/slash/slash
Can you try creating "spam:ham" and "spam/ham"? If they're both legal, I'd like to see what their file names are represented as. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
