[Tutor] valid filenames

lumbricus@gmx.net lumbricus@gmx.net
Sun, 1 Apr 2001 17:02:57 +0200


Hi all!!!

> But in general, filenames can be kept to lower-case and upper-case
> characters, numerals and punctuation.  You might want to look into the
> fnmatch module.
> 
U can avoid by not using
names like -anything
           ^
names containing whitespace (this goes to m$-windoze and mac especially
*grrrrrr*)
and other special characters

all allowed in UNIX but generally a bad idea.

grreetings!!