Does This Scare You?
Michael Torrie
torriem at gmail.com
Sun Aug 21 16:03:18 EDT 2016
On 08/19/2016 05:42 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> Python 3.5.2+ (default, Aug 5 2016, 08:07:14)
> [GCC 6.1.1 20160724] on linux
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> from pathlib import PureWindowsPath
> >>> PureWindowsPath("prn").is_reserved()
> True
> >>> PureWindowsPath("prn.doc").is_reserved()
> True
> >>> PureWindowsPath("com9.exe").is_reserved()
> True
> >>> PureWindowsPath("c:/my documents/prn.doc").is_reserved()
> True
Which part are you getting at? That Windows treats certain filenames as
reserved (a known gotcha that has existed for decades) or that Python
allows you to test whether a path is valid in Windows?
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