On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Bill Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Bill Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Victor Stinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> >> - listdir(unicode) -> only unicode, *skip* invalid filenames >> >> (as asked by Guido) >> > >> > Is there an option listdir(bytes) which will return *all* filenames (as >> > byte sequences)? Otherwise, this seems troubling to me; *something* >> > should be returned for filenames which can't be represented, even if >> > it's only None. >> >> Yes, os.listdir() becomes polymorphic -- if you pass it a pathname in >> bytes the output is in bytes and it will return everything exactly as >> the underlying syscall returns it to you. > > What about everything else? For instance, if I call > os.path.join(<bytes>, <bytes>), I presume I get back a <bytes> which can > be passed to os.listdir() to retrieve the contents of that directory.
Yeah, Victor's code at http://bugs.python.org/issue3187 (file python3_bytes_filename.patch) does this. More needs to be done but it's a start. -- --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
