> 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?
On Windows, / \ : * ? " < > | are forbidden, and the name can't be empty. Using urlsafe_b64encode/...decode should work on any platform. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
