On Tue, May 16, 2006, Sidnei da Silva wrote:
>On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 05:01:02PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
>| On Tue, May 16, 2006, Sidnei da Silva wrote:
>| >I've recently used the 'pathname2url' function from urllib to convert
>| >a pathname to a file:// url for sqlite. 
>| >
>| >However, to my surprise, pathname2url would quote characters in the
>| >generated url, namely spaces would be turned into %20.
>| 
>| Whitespace in pathnames is evil, and should be avoided by people with a
>| clue (you can't expect clueless end users to understand this).
>
>Tell that to Windows users, specially ones that have their 'Program
>Files' directory localized to their native language. :)

I could make a strong arguments that all Windows users are clueless or they
wouldn't install the Microsoft virus in the first place.

Bill
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