Stefan Holek added the comment: What we are trying to do is make distribute work with non-ASCII filenames, and this is one of the things we ran into.
Fact 1: Filenames are bytes, whether you like it or not. Treating them as strings is going to give you more trouble than dragging the bytes along. Fact 2: Surrogates are Python 3's way of dealing with bytes. Fact 3: What follows is that surrogates must be supported wherever Python 3 deals with filenames. Fact 4: This is a *bug* since Python breaks its own rules here (I have removed the enhancement marker). The issue is not what ZIP can do, but what Python 3 *must* do. Creating a potentially non-standard ZIP file is fine, exploding in the user's face is not. ---------- type: enhancement -> versions: +Python 3.3 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16310> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
