On Mon, Aug 22, 2016, at 08:39, Chris Angelico wrote: > Nope. On Windows, you would try/except it.
No, you can't, because the failure mode often isn't "file refuses to open" but "data is written to a serial port". There are myriad other ways > something could fail, and the only correct action is to attempt it. > Most of the reserved names will simply give an error; the only way > you'd actually get incorrect behaviour is if the file name, including > extension, is exactly a device name. I think the reason you believe this can be traced back to the "C:\con\con" trick, which crashed the system by trying to use the name as a directory. > (Caveat: My knowledge of Windows > is rusty and my testing just now was cursory. I could be wrong.) Eryk Sun already posted an example using "NUL .txt". -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
