Tiberiu Dragulinescu added the comment:
The join function should know that it will compose a path with the provided
string, so I think it should complain or ignore ilegal path/filename
components, in regard to the host OS.
But if it is not a valid point of view python-wise, one can check his own
path :P
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Steven D'Aprano <rep...@bugs.python.org>wrote:
>
> Steven D'Aprano added the comment:
>
> > LF or CR cannot be part of a URI
>
> But they can be part of a filename, at least on POSIX systems. Are you
> proposing that only the Windows version of os.path.join strip LF/CR?
>
> I don't think that it up to the join function to validate the path, and
> certainly not to modify the substrings. Would you expect it to complain
> about this? os.path.join('/', 'AUX')? (AUX is a reserved name and forbidden
> for file names under Windows.)
>
> I don't think it is up to join to validate that the path generated is
> legal, so I don't think this is a bug in join.
>
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