Guido van Rossum wrote: > On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:27 AM, Ulrich Eckhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In 99% of all cases, using the default encoding will work and do what people >> expect, which is why I would make this conversion automatic. In all other >> cases, it will at least not fail silently (which would lead to garbage and >> data loss) and allow more sophisticated applications to handle it. > > I think the "always fail noisily" approach isn't the best approach. > E.g. if I am globbing for *.py, and there's an undecodable .txt file > in a directory, its presence shouldn't cause the glob to fail. > But why should it make glob() fail? This sounds like an implementation detail of glob. Here's some pseudo-code::
def glob(pattern):
string = False
if isinstance(pattern, str):
string = True
if platform == 'POSIX':
pattern = bytes(pattern, encoding=defaultencoding)
rawfiles = os.listdir(os.path.dirname(pattern) or pattern)
if string and platform == 'POSIX':
return [str(f) for f in rawfiles if match(f, pattern)]
else:
return rawfiles
This way the traceback occurs if anything in the result set is
undecodable. What am I missing?
-Toshio
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