Re: DEP 5 and directory/file names with spaces
Jonathan Yu dijo [Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 07:35:56PM -0400]:
> Since nobody seems to have noticed, I'd like to re-propose my idea for
> consideration:
>
> Files: a b
> c d
> e
> f
>
> (ie, using continuation lines to specify lists of files, rather than
> commas or anything else. No escaping necessary.)
Yup - But the newline is also a valid (altough, yes, very uncommon)
part of a filename.
Now, this proposal keeps the field RFC822-ish — We could extrapolate
this a bit, and accept basically any non-whitespace strings delimited
by whitespace. Newlines are just one form of whitespace. And, of
course, you can escape any whitespace character to prevent it from
being treated as whitespace.
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