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@anntzer anntzer commented Mar 19, 2025

Adding a test for this required tweaking a bit the behavior of non-GUI managers (so that they also store the window title); note that the comment of non-GUIs returning None was clearly wrong.

Closes #29779.

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@@ -2220,7 +2220,7 @@ def get_default_filename(self):
# Characters to be avoided in a NT path:
# https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247(v=vs.85).aspx#naming_conventions
# plus ' '
removed_chars = r'<>:"/\|?*\0 '
removed_chars = r'<>:"/\|?*''\0 '
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I find this a bit too clever. This seems simpler

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removed_chars = r'<>:"/\|?*''\0 '
removed_chars = '<>:"/\\|?*\0 '

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sure

Adding a test for this required tweaking a bit the behavior of non-GUI
managers (so that they also store the window title); note that the
comment of non-GUIs returning None was clearly wrong.
@dstansby dstansby added this to the v3.10.2 milestone Mar 20, 2025
@timhoffm timhoffm merged commit e4e85e6 into matplotlib:main Mar 20, 2025
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…781-on-v3.10.x

Backport PR #29781 on branch v3.10.x (Fix escaping of nulls and "0" in default filenames.)
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[Bug]: get_default_filename removes '0' from file name instead of '\0' from window title
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