Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: The proper work-around is for the app to pass bytes into os.listdir(); then it will return bytes. It would be nice if open() etc. accepted bytes (as well as strings of course), at least on Unix, but not absolutely necessary -- the app could also just know the right encoding.
I see two reasonable alternatives for what os.listdir() should return when the input is a string and one of the filenames can't be decoded: either omit it from the output list; or use errors='replace' in the encoding. Failing the entire os.listdir() call is not acceptable, and neither is returning a mixture of str and bytes instances. ---------- nosy: +gvanrossum _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3187> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
