On 12 September 2011 16:00, Dr. Trigon <dr.trigon@surfeu.ch> wrote:

So this "IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ..." was NOT
triggered because of an not existing file, BUT because of the syntax
not accepted. I do not want to state that there is no possibility to
cheat this way, but the obvious one suggested, does not work in python

Interesting theory, but not true:

valhallasw@nightshade:~$ cat > test.file

blah

valhallasw@nightshade:~$ python

Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Jan 4 2011, 13:57:14)

[GCC 4.5.2] on sunos5

Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

>>> open("/home/valhallasw/src/../test.file").readlines()

['blah\n']

Please always double-check these things in security-related issues.

Best,

Merlijn