On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Plus, even on Linux Unicode is *usually* what you should be doing, > unless you're writing a backup tool.
I still find this line of reasoning a bit worrying. Imagine an end user application like a music player. The user discovers that he can't see some .mp3 or .ogg file from the music player that is visibile is the file manager. I would expect him to file a bug on the music player. If the bug was closed with "fix the filename" I imagine the user would respond with "but other programs can access it just fine". I'm not unhappy with the solution Victor is proposing, but I imagine that when I start coding projects in 3.0 I'll default to the bytes versions of the filename methods and use b"path".decode(sys.getfilesystemencoding(), "replace") if I need to get Unicode. _______________________________________________ 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
