On 2006-03-27, robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > want to encode/decode an arbitrary short 8-bit string as save filename. > is there a good already builtin encoding to do this (without too much > inflation) ? or re.sub expression? > > or which characters are not allowed in filenames on typical OS?
Under unix, "/" and NULL aer not allowed. There are other characters that are not recommended, but those are the only two that are not allowed. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! .. the MYSTERIANS are at in here with my CORDUROY visi.com SOAP DISH!! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list