On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 6:22 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: >> Can you try creating "spam:ham" and "spam/ham"? If they're both legal, >> I'd like to see what their file names are represented as. > > I think Bev already explained it. At Unix level, you can't have slashes > in filenames. At GUI level, you can't have colons in filenames. Unix > slashes are bijectively mapped to colons in the GUI. > > So what you are asking can't really be tried out. >
I'd like to find out about that. If it doesn't work, it'll be easily provable that it can't be done. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list