Georg Brandl wrote: > M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> Why are these new features being backported to 2.4 ? >> >> georg.brandl wrote: >>> Author: georg.brandl >>> Date: Sun Feb 19 10:51:33 2006 >>> New Revision: 42490 >>> >>> Modified: >>> python/branches/release24-maint/Lib/fileinput.py >>> python/branches/release24-maint/Lib/test/test_fileinput.py >>> python/branches/release24-maint/Misc/NEWS >>> Log: >>> Patch #1337756: fileinput now accepts Unicode filenames. > > Is that a new feature? I thought that wherever a filename is accepted, > it can be unicode too. > > The previous behavior was a bug in any case, since it treated the > unicode string as a sequence of filenames. Would you fix that by > raising a ValueError?
No, but from the text in the NEWS file things sounded a lot like a feature rather than a bug fix. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Feb 19 2006) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,FreeBSD for free ! :::: _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com