[Python-ideas] Re: Sanitize filename (path part) 2nd try

On 11 May 2020, at 18:09, Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas wrote:

More generally, what’s the use case for %-encoding filenames like this? Are people expecting it to interact transparently with URLs, so if I save a file “spam\0eggs” in a Python script and then try to browse to file:///spam\0eggs file:///spam/0eggs” in a browser, the browser will convert the \0 character to %00 the same way my Python script did and therefore find the file?

No. The \0 can never be part of a valid file in Unix, macOS or Windows. Barry