[Python-Dev] PEP 376 : Changing the .egg-info structure

Ronald Oussoren ronaldoussoren at mac.com
Tue May 19 14:59:31 CEST 2009


On 17 May, 2009, at 15:04, MRAB wrote:

> Alexander Shigin wrote:
>> В Сбт, 16/05/2009 в 23:15 +0100, MRAB пишет:
>>> FYI, on RISC OS '/' is a valid filename character and '.' is used as
>>> the directory separator.
>>>
>>> I'd probably say that TAB is s reasonable character to use, even
>>> though it's OK in POSIX; after all, should anyone really be using a
>>> control character in a filename?
>> The '\0' char is invalid in both windows and posix. I don't know if  
>> one
>> valid on RISC OS.
> '\0' isn't a valid filename character on RISC OS.

Wouldn't it be possible to use a CSV file for this? That way we  
wouldn't have to invent yet another escaping mechanism and there's  
already good suppport for reading and writing CSV files in the  
standard library.

Ronald

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