Baptiste Carvello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: If, as I understand, it is the application's job to call listdir with bytes or unicode depending on the platform, it might be useful to have a function in the os module telling whether the filesystem is bytes of unicode-native.
That way, the idiom for doing something to all files in a given directory would read: >>> directory="my_direcory" ... if not os.is_filesystem_unicode(): ... directory=directory.encode(sys.stdin.encoding) ... for name in os.listdir(directory): ... f=open(name) ... # do something ... f.close() and it would work on all platforms, even if one of the filenames is not in the locale's normal encoding. If this idiom is correct, it could also be useful to include it in the module documentation so that application authors know what they are supposed to do. ---------- nosy: +zegreek _______________________________________ 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
