Apology to Bill Gates (was Re: ASV module, CVS modules)

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Fri Mar 1 09:18:43 EST 2002


Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> writes:

>     John> Python, starting from a Unix background, where there is evidently
>     John> no such thing as an invalid character in a file name, ...
> 
> I believe "/" is not allowed in Unix filenames.  Not sure if this is
> escapable or not.

Don't think so.  NULLs are out, too.

Cheers,
M.

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