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Re: Unicode Chars in Windows Path

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Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>:

> Small clarification: The Windows *API* accepts both types of slash
> (you can open a file using forward slashes, for instance), but not all
> Windows *applications* are aware of this (generally only
> cross-platform ones take notice of this), and most Windows *users*
> prefer backslashes. So when you come to display a Windows path, you
> may want to convert to backslashes. But that's for display.

Didn't know that. More importantly, I had thought forward slashes were
valid file basename characters, but Windows is surprisingly strict about
that:

   < > : " / \ | ? * NUL

are not allowed in basenames. Unix/linux disallows only:

  / NUL

In fact, proper dealing with punctuation in pathnames is one of the main
reasons to migrate to Python from bash. Even if it is often possible to
write bash scripts that handle arbitrary pathnames correctly, few script
writers are pedantic enough to do it properly. For example, newlines in
filenames are bound to confuse 99.9% of bash scripts.


Marko

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Unicode Chars in Windows Path Steve <sreisscruz@gmail.com> - 2014-04-02 16:27 -0700
  Re: Unicode Chars in Windows Path Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-04-03 02:37 +0000
    Re: Unicode Chars in Windows Path Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-04-03 14:10 +1100
      Re: Unicode Chars in Windows Path Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-04-03 12:00 +0300
        Re: Unicode Chars in Windows Path Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-04-03 15:09 +0200
        Re: Unicode Chars in Windows Path random832@fastmail.us - 2014-04-03 09:57 -0400
        Re: Unicode Chars in Windows Path Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-04-04 01:17 +1100
        Re: Unicode Chars in Windows Path David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2014-04-04 11:15 +1100
        Re: Unicode Chars in Windows Path Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-04-04 12:16 +1100
        Re: Unicode Chars in Windows Path David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2014-04-04 13:02 +1100
    Re: Unicode Chars in Windows Path Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-04-03 14:41 -0400
    Re: Unicode Chars in Windows Path Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-04-04 09:06 +1100
    Re: Unicode Chars in Windows Path Lele Gaifax <lele@metapensiero.it> - 2014-04-04 09:07 +0200
  Re: Unicode Chars in Windows Path alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2014-04-03 08:35 +0000

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