Steve D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info>: > But if I could borrow Guido's time machine, I'd go back and convince > the file system people to use ^ as the record separator, rather than > slash or backslash or colon. Caret is *much* less likely to be useful > in file names than forward slash (often used for dates) or colon, or > even backslash.
You are stuck with the axiom that pathname and its representation are one and the same thing. URI's make the distinction clear. Say you wanted to express a resource päätyö/2 as part of a URI. URIs are to contain a subset of ASCII only so an encoding scheme has been devised. That resource is expressed like this: p%c3%a4%c3%a4ty%c3%b6%2f2 A far more convenient escaping scheme could have been devised for pathnames. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
