Why exception from os.path.exists()?

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 1:55 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Jun 2018 23:27:16 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> And an ASCIIZ string cannot contain a byte value of zero. The parallel
>> is exact.
>
> Why should we, as Python programmers, care one whit about ASCIIZ strings?
> They're not relevant. You might as well say that file names cannot
> contain the character "π" because ASCIIZ strings don't support it.
>
> No they don't, and yet nevertheless file names can and do contain
> characters outside of the ASCIIZ range.

Under Linux, a file name contains bytes, most commonly representing
UTF-8 sequences. So... an ASCIIZ string *can* contain that character,
or at least a representation of it. Yet it cannot contain "\0".

ChrisA