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Author	facundobatista
Recipients	d_kagedal, facundobatista, kdwyer, loewis
Date	2007-10-26.17:07:11
SpamBayes Score	0.0007542882
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Message-id	<[email protected]>
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>>> import os.path >>> os.path.exists("con") False >>> os.path.exists("nul") False >>> os.path.exists("prn") False This is in Windows 2000 (5.00.2195) sp4, using both Python 2.3.5 and 2.5.1, no cygwin. Personally, I'm +1 with Mark Hammond about this: I agree it is unfortunate that the behaviour has changed, but these special names are broken enough on Windows that rely on the kernel32 function and behaves like it says seems the sanest thing to do. Taking in consideration that now it behaves equally in different windows systems, but not before, I think this issue should be closed as "invalid" (it's not a bug). I'll wait some days to get more behaviour responses, though. Regards,

>>> import os.path
>>> os.path.exists("con")
False
>>> os.path.exists("nul")
False
>>> os.path.exists("prn")
False

This is in Windows 2000 (5.00.2195) sp4, using *both* Python 2.3.5 and
2.5.1, no cygwin.

Personally, I'm +1 with Mark Hammond about this:

    I agree it is unfortunate that the behaviour has changed, 
    but these special names are broken enough on Windows that 
    rely on the kernel32 function and behaves like it says 
    seems the sanest thing to do.

Taking in consideration that *now* it behaves equally in different
windows systems, but not before, I think this issue should be closed as
"invalid" (it's not a bug).

I'll wait some days to get more behaviour responses, though.

Regards,

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Date	User	Action	Args
2007-10-26 17:07:12	facundobatista	set	spambayes_score: 0.000754288 -> 0.0007542882 recipients: + facundobatista, loewis, d_kagedal, kdwyer
2007-10-26 17:07:12	facundobatista	set	spambayes_score: 0.000754288 -> 0.000754288 messageid: <[email protected]>
2007-10-26 17:07:12	facundobatista	link	issue1311 messages
2007-10-26 17:07:11	facundobatista	create