On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Le Monday 29 September 2008 19:06:01 Guido van Rossum, vous avez écrit : > >>> I know I keep flipflopping on this one, but the more I think about it >>> the more I believe it is better to drop those names than to raise an >>> exception. Otherwise a "naive" program that happens to use >>> os.listdir() can be rendered completely useless by a single non-UTF-8 >>> filename. Consider the use of os.listdir() by the glob module. If I am >>> globbing for *.py, why should the presence of a file named b'\xff' >>> cause it to fail? > > To avoid silent skipping, is it possible to drop 'unreadable' names, issue a > warning (instead of exception), and continue to completion? > "Warning: unreadable filename skipped; see PyWiki/UnreadableFilenames"
That would be annoying as hell in most cases. I consider the dropping of unreadable names similar to the suppression of "hidden" files by various operating systems. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
