Why exception from os.path.exists()?
Grant Edwards
grant.b.edwards at gmail.com
Fri Jun 1 21:51:07 EDT 2018
On 2018-06-01, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> But since "\0" is the correct type (a string), and the fact that it
> happens to be illegal on POSIX is a platform-dependent detail of no more
> importance than the fact that "?" is illegal on Windows, it should be
> treated as any other platform-dependent illegal file and return False.
That sounds reasonable.
What about the case where somebody calls
os.path.exists("/tmp/foo\x00bar")
If /tmp/foo exists should it return True? That's what would happen if
you passed that string directly to the libc call.
--
Grant
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