Why exception from os.path.exists()?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2018-06-01, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Thu, 31 May 2018 17:43:28 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> Except on the platform in quetion filenames _don't_ contain an embedded
>> \0.  What was passed was _not_ a path/filename.
>
> "/wibble/rubbish/nobodyexpectsthespanishinquistion" is not a pathname on 
> my system either,

I disagree.  On Unix systems that _is_ a path.  There may or may not
be a file that exists with that path.  OTOH "/wibble\x00/whatever" is
not a Unix path.

--
Grant