Re: [python-win32] opening files with names in non-english characters.

2009-02-24 Thread Ulrich Berning
venu madhav wrote: Hello, First of all thanks for your response. I've written a function as shown below to recurse a directory and return a file based on the value of n. I am calling this fucntion from my main code to catch that filename. The folder which it recurses through contains

Re: [python-win32] opening files with names in non-english characters.

2009-02-24 Thread Vernon Cole
1) Comparing the time it would take to walk a directory tree thousands of times, with the storage it would take to store thousands of file names, I think you would be much better of to store the list. Buy another memory chip if needed. 2) I suspect that Python is NOT returning question mark

Re: [python-win32] opening files with names in non-english characters.

2009-02-24 Thread Tim Roberts
Vernon Cole wrote: 2) I suspect that Python is NOT returning question mark characters. Windows (or KIMODO) is probably failing to display some characters that Python is returning. Actually, you're wrong here. The Windows API is returning the file names in Unicode. The os.listdir function

[python-win32] Problem in identifying an archived file in Windows

2009-02-24 Thread venu madhav
Hello all, I am writing an application which has to identify the archived files in a given directory.I've tried using the function i = win32api.GetFileAttributes (full_path) to obtain the attributes.But am unable to identify based on the value it returns as it is returning 5152, 13856