Steven D'Aprano wrote: > In Explorer and the open-file dialog of most applications, they will see > paths like this: > > directory\file name with spaces > > with the extension (.jpg, .pdf, .docx etc) suppressed. So by your > argument, Python needs to accept strings without quotes: > > open(directory\file name with spaces, 'r') > > and guess which extension you mean. > > That would be fun to watch in action.
I think it's what is called 'English humor'? Funny (just a little bit). Wait a moment - you are well aware of Windows features, that's suspicious... BTW Explorer with hidden extension that's a sign of "double-click, drag-and-drop" category of users. Definitely more advanced users turn on extensions, or don't even use explorer as a file manager. > Linux programmers will > see paths with spaces and other metacharacters escaped: > > directory/file\ name\ with\ spaces.txt ick. what I see is escaping of the most frequent Latin character. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
