On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 09:12:52PM -0000, Steve Jorgensen <ste...@stevej.name> wrote: > When the platform is Windows, certainly, "<letter>:" should not be allowed, > and perhaps colon should not be allowed at all.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/naming-a-file Forbidden characters: chr(0) < > : " / \ | ? * characters in range from chr(1) through chr(31), a space or a period at the end of file/directory name. Forbidden file names (with any extensions): CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9. Oleg. -- Oleg Broytman https://phdru.name/ p...@phdru.name Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/GUVNRX5VXAN324AKAWP3BVZ3CG7YHCOS/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
