Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.119 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.76; '*S*': 0.00; 'cpython': 0.05; 'subject:file': 0.07; 'escape': 0.09; 'filenames': 0.09; 'occasionally': 0.09; 'window?': 0.09; 'windows': 0.15; 'finite': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'small,': 0.19; 'typing': 0.19; 'work,': 0.20; 'comfortable': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'artist': 0.24; 'necessary.': 0.24; 'own.': 0.24; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'characters': 0.30; 'code': 0.31; 'received:209.85.213.174': 0.31; 'trouble': 0.34; 'received:209.85': 0.35; 'case,': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'list': 0.37; 'list.': 0.37; 'received:209': 0.37; 'being': 0.38; 'message-id:@gmail.com': 0.38; 'problems': 0.38; 'displays': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'anything': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'enough': 0.39; 'even': 0.60; 'read': 0.60; 'dave': 0.60; "you're": 0.61; 'soon': 0.63; 'more': 0.64; 'different': 0.65; 'worth': 0.66; 'invalid': 0.68; 'hoping': 0.75; '3.3.1': 0.84; '9.1': 0.84; 'characters,': 0.84; 'freebsd': 0.84; 'subject:Making': 0.84; 'angel': 0.91; 'reply,': 0.93 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=yVjBcc8Ptl6vjhbDk2OC31wgyoBlkk+mQ2InBWOUFqw=; b=nFbTn7bmhAiAEXZwM+wlnFv8BJFN5EJHDWS7T6YTnaq0/AAh36wUPGbm6eqeKfUhRb jVah6BCx3VPvKKb2ODUVrSs1NAP/eTkYnXKq7hujomcdIAgGTV2VD+OafaCLlrQ/ijWS /9dfwrx0N9pa9R0ewt5LXIREi58jldWHcE3v644is6BPG+q3/YgQKhe2MWo/VoFekSVP HezdkTL431CFnxiiOOSAN+ScnGlzGdoyyDPn9038Ab29kcF7Hs22y5WHMKpAUorvqg6Z AuMle3d7QVU+T2UPCrWweyWr+e0BuOJ8lMxfBnlQfFQrd9RjOTnx0MpH1WmNu9P239o7 RRgQ== X-Received: by 10.236.162.164 with SMTP id y24mr4682158yhk.14.1367979702707; Tue, 07 May 2013 19:21:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 21:21:41 -0500 From: Andrew Berg User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130107 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "comp.lang.python" Subject: Re: Making safe file names References: <51895D03.4000300@gmail.com> <518998FE.6030805@davea.name> <5189A18C.5060109@gmail.com> <5189A6A7.4040104@davea.name> In-Reply-To: <5189A6A7.4040104@davea.name> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 16 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1367979705 news.xs4all.nl 15916 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:38201 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:44933 On 2013.05.07 20:13, Dave Angel wrote: > So you're comfortable typing arbitrary characters? what about all the > characters that have identical displays in your font? Identification is more important than typing. I can copy and paste into a terminal if necessary. I don't foresee typing out one of the filenames being anything more than a rare occurrence, but I will occasionally just read the list. > What about viewing > 0x07 in the terminal window? Or 0x04? I don't think Last.fm will even send those characters. In any case, control characters in artist names are rare enough that it's not worth the trouble to write the code to avoid the problems associated with them. > As soon as you have a small, finite list of invalid characters, writing > an escape system is pretty easy. Probably. I was just hoping there was an existing system that would work, but as I said in a different reply, it would seem I need to roll my own. -- CPython 3.3.1 | Windows NT 6.2.9200 / FreeBSD 9.1