On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 9:52 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 06:10:26 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> 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. > > The Finder could very easily be substituting another character, like > Konqueror (the KDE 3 file manager) does. In Konqueror, you can create a > file named "spam/ham" and it quietly substitutes "spam%2fham" instead. > But Konqueror's GUI treats it completely transparently: it is displayed > as a slash, and if you copy the file name from the GUI you get a slash.
Speculation is all very well, but I was wanting to see what actually happened. :) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
