Ronald Oussoren wrote: > Patch http://www.python.org/sf/1580674 fixes readlink's behaviour w.r.t. > Unicode strings: without this patch this function uses the system > default encoding instead of the filesystem encoding to convert Unicode > objects to plain strings. Like os.listdir, os.readlink will now return a > Unicode object when the argument is a Unicode object. > > What I'd like to know is if this can be backported to the 2.5 branch. > The first part of this patch (use filesystem encoding instead of the > system encoding) is IMHO a bugfix, the second part might break existing > applications (that might not expect a unicode result from os.readlink). > > The reason I did this patch is that os.path.realpath currently breaks > when the path is a unicode string with non-ascii characters and at least > one element of the path is a symlink.
I don't think that an application that passes a Unicode object to os.readlink() would have problems dealing with a Unicode return value. +1 on backporting it to 2.5. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Oct 22 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
