Anthony Baxter wrote: > On Friday 08 September 2006 02:56, Kristján V. Jónsson wrote: > >>Hello All. >>I just added patch 1552880 to sourceforge. It is a patch for 2.6 (and 2.5) >>which allows unicode paths in sys.path and uses the unicode file api on >>windows. This is tried and tested on 2.5, and backported to 2.3 and is >>currently running on clients in china and esewhere. It is minimally >>intrusive to the inporting mechanism, at the cost of some string conversion >>overhead (to utf8 and then back to unicode). > > > As this can't be considered a bugfix (that I can see), I'd be against it > being > checked into 2.5. > Are you suggesting that Python's inability to correctly handle Unicode path elements isn't a bug? Or simply that this inability isn't currently described in a bug report on Sourceforge?
I agree it's a relatively large patch for a release candidate but if prudence suggests deferring it, it should be a *definite* for 2.5.1 and subsequent releases. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://holdenweb.blogspot.com Recent Ramblings http://del.icio.us/steve.holden _______________________________________________ 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
