Matimus and John,
Thank you both for your feedback.
Matimus: I agree with your analysis. I blame lack of caffeine for my
original post :)
Regards,
Malcolm
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bad file names, i.e. filenames the OS considers illegal, will cause
functions in the os.path module to raise an error.
Example:
import os.path
print os.path.getsize( 'c:/pytest/*.py' )
The issue, I think, is there's no function that checks
syntax of a path name wit
> Now, I can understand if you don't like the "WindowsError" as that is
> obviously platform specific. The try/except pattern however is the way
> errors are handled in python and the best and most appropriate way to
> deal with it. The above example just shows that at the very least
> there isn't
On May 2, 9:40 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Bad file names, i.e. filenames the OS considers illegal, will cause
> functions in the os.path module to raise an error.
>
> Example:
>
> import os.path
> print os.path.getsize( 'c:/pytest/*.py' )
>
> On Windows XP using Python 2.5.2 I get the following
