Obnoxious postings from Google Groups

Roy Smith roy at panix.com
Mon Nov 5 07:56:01 EST 2012


In article <mailman.3269.1352097585.27098.python-list at python.org>,
 Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's nothing to do with operating system. File names are names, and
> spaces in them are seldom worth the hassle unless you manipulate those
> files solely using a GUI.

That's a very ascii-esqe attitude.  In a fully unicode world, I could 
easily see using U+00A0 (NO-BREAK SPACE) in file names, and still have 
space-delimited CLI work just fine.

But, yeah, in the world we live in today, I try to avoid spaces in 
filenames.  But, instead of turning "My File Name" into MyFileName, I'll 
usually do it as My-File-Name or My_File_Name.



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