Why exception from os.path.exists()?

[Chris Angelico]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 11:06 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jun 2018 23:57:35 +0200, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
>
>> I think this is worth keeping, and "I couldn't pass that file name to
>> the OS" is a different error than "the OS told me the file doesn't
>> exist", so I think it should be a different exception.
>
> What makes you think that NUL bytes are a fundamental limitation that no
> OS could every cope with?

I didn't say that. If you have an OS that can't handle more than 255
bytes of file name, it's allowed to raise ValueError just the same.

ChrisA