On approximately 5/16/2009 11:58 AM, came the following characters from
the keyboard of P.J. Eby:
At 11:17 AM 5/16/2009 -0700, Glenn Linderman wrote:
On approximately 5/16/2009 9:55 AM, came the following characters from
the keyboard of P.J. Eby:
At 06:06 PM 5/16/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
Ok I've changed the PEP with all the points you mentioned, if you want
to take a look.
Some notes:
1. Why ';' separation, instead of tabs as in PEP 262? Aren't
semicolons a valid character in filenames?
Why tabs? Aren't tabs a valid character in filenames?
(hint: Both are valid in POSIX filenames, neither are valid in Windows
filenames)
";" *is* valid in Windows filenames, actually. Tabs aresn't.
Oops. Guess I got that crossed with valid email address characters...
But I should probably have stated my point... that since there are no
characters that are not illegal in file names on every platform, except
"/" and NULL, that some mention should be made, that splitting the line
on ; (or TAB) isn't necessarily the correct parsing technique... rather
that the line should be parsed from the right end, and the remainder
used as a the filename, as the numbers at the end would not have ; or
TAB as legal characters within them. Or else some escaping mechanism
needs to be defined. Or else the ; or TAB will be illegal in names used
in the RECORD (which would be limiting, although not significantly so,
in my opinion, but others may have other opinions).
--
Glenn -- http://nevcal.com/
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