os.path.escape?

[Bruce Sass]

On Fri, 18 May 2001, Mike C. Fletcher wrote:

> Hi all, wondering if someone has such a beast they're willing to share.
> Basically something that, given an arbitrary "name" by the user, eliminates
> all system-specific special characters (i.e. on Win32 and Mac, lets " "
> characters through, but not on *nix).  Will settle for Win32 specific if I
> have to...

Why not allow " " in paths on unix?

~$ cd tmp
~/tmp$ cat >> "hi there"
See, it works.
~/tmp$ ls -l "hi there"
-rw-r--r--    1 bsass    bsass          15 May 18 11:13 hi there
~/tmp$ cat "hi there"
See, it works.


- Bruce