As always, October was an eventful month for the Python community this year. It brought the final Python 3.11 release, a few beta versions of the next major releases of popular Python libraries, and some exciting developments in the Python community.
Here’s a quick recap of the most interesting happenings from October 2022. read more
Traditionally, Unix/Linux/POSIX filenames can be almost any sequence of bytes, and their meaning is unassigned. The only real rules are that "/" is always the directory separator, and that filenames can't contain byte 0 (because this is the terminator). Although this is flexible, this creates many unnecessary problems. In particular, this lack of limitations makes it unnecessarily difficult to write correct programs (enabling many security flaws), makes it impossible to consistently and accurately display filenames, causes portability problems, and confuses users. more ....
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