please explain illegal char replacement

[doubledrat]

Hi

I'm trying to get a script to play nicely with SAB, so I need to mimic the way characters are replaced.  The thing is, my observed behaviour does not tally with the SAB code, so I'm confused -

the code

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    illegal = r'\/<>?*:;|"'
    legal   = r'++{}!@--#`'

replaces the illegal chars with the corresponding legal chars, yet I'm seeing replacements (on win32) such as

: becomes ;  - some other chars become .

how can that happen when the SAB code doesn't do it?!

ta

[shypike]

Release 0.4.6 doesn't replace ':' with ';' (release 0.4.5 did that).

What are you trying to accomplish?
What is the source of your NZB names?
Note that many sites already do substitutions themselves (like newzbin.com and tvnzb.com).

[doubledrat]

that explains it.  I'm using 0.4.5 but checked the code of 0.4.6

dohw!

thanks.

ps: have you ever considered replacing

& with + 

too? - an & can bugger up windows post-processing something rotten!

[redvers]

Release 0.4.6 doesn't replace ':' with ';' (release 0.4.5 did that).

Why was this changed? All my series I set up and downloaded under 0.4.5 now all go to a different folder! Is ';' an unsupported character somewhere?

[shypike]

Yes, Linux and OSX don't really like it.
And many people just dislike it.

BTW, there's also an option to remove illegal characters altogether.