On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 11:06 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jun 2018 23:57:35 +0200, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > >> I think this is worth keeping, and "I couldn't pass that file name to >> the OS" is a different error than "the OS told me the file doesn't >> exist", so I think it should be a different exception. > > What makes you think that NUL bytes are a fundamental limitation that no > OS could every cope with?
I didn't say that. If you have an OS that can't handle more than 255 bytes of file name, it's allowed to raise ValueError just the same. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
