Why exception from os.path.exists()?

[Gregory Ewing]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Besides, it is certainly not true that there are no OSes that can deal 
> with NULs in file names. Classic Mac OS can, as filenames there are 
> represented as Pascal strings (a length byte followed by an array of 
> arbitrary bytes), not NUL-terminated C strings.

There's even a way you could potentially tell the classic
Mac file manager API to create a filename with a colon in
it, by using the (volume reference number, directory id,
filename) way of specifying a file.

I don't know whether it would have succeeded, though --
I suspect it would have rejected such a file name as
invalid.

-- 
Greg