Re: pyepics autosave

["J. Lewis Muir via Tech-talk" <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>]

On 09/06, Johnson, Andrew N. via Tech-talk wrote:
> The AppDevGuide also says in section 6.4.11.2:
> 
> > The record name. This must be composed out of only the following characters:
> > a-z A-Z 0-9 _ - + : [ ] < > ;
> 
> Neither description includes the ‘{}’ characters that NSLS-2
> introduced into their record naming convention without realizing that
> they weren’t permitted according to the documentation. However IIRC
> the IOC code will actually accept any character string that doesn’t
> contain ‘.’ or space characters for a record name (I vaguely
> remember adding some checks to the parser, but that may have just been
> for dots and spaces).

If '{' and '}' are going to be allowed, then I hope they get added to
the Application Developer's Guide.

Regards,

Lewis