encode short string as filename (unix/windows)

[Grant Edwards]

On 2006-03-27, robert <no-spam at no-spam-no-spam.com> wrote:
> want to encode/decode an arbitrary short 8-bit string as save filename. 
> is there a good already builtin encoding to do this (without too much 
> inflation) ? or re.sub expression?
>
> or which characters are not allowed in filenames on typical OS?

Under unix, "/" and NULL aer not allowed.

There are other characters that are not recommended, but those
are the only two that are not allowed.

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