python 2.7.12 on Linux behaving differently than on Windows

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 6:24 AM, BartC <bc at freeuk.com> wrote:
>> If it sees "*", it will try to open a file named "*".
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> And people still say that the way Windows works is crazy!
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>  That's a valid
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>> filename in Unix, but it should be avoided.
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> No, it should be prohibited, if the file API and/or shell assign special
> significance to it.
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That implies that the file system, file API, and shell are all bound
together. You have to forbid in file names *any* character that has
*any* significance to *any* shell. That means no quotes, no asterisks
or question marks, no square brackets, no braces, etc, etc, etc.....
or, alternatively, restrict your shells to all perform the exact same
expansion - or no expansion at all, and then restrict all your
_applications_ to perform the same expansion.

Good luck.

ChrisA