On 2010-08-31, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i have a script that reads and writes linux paths in a file. I save the
> path (as unicode) with 2 other variables. I save them seperated by "," and
> the "packets" by newlines. So my file looks like this:
> path1, var1A, var1B
> path2, var2A, var2B
> path3, var3A, var3B
> ....
>
> this works for "normal" paths but as soon as i have a path that does
> include a "," it breaks. The problem now is that (afaik) linux allows
> every char (aside from "/" and null) to be used in filenames. The only
> solution i can think of is using null as a seperator, but there have to a
> cleaner version ?
The normal thing to do is to escape the delimiter when it appears in
data. There are lots of plenty of escaping standards to choose from,
and some of them (e.g. the one used for URLs) are already present
in various bits of Python's standard library.
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