On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Ulrich Eckhardt <eckha...@satorlaser.com> wrote: > On Thursday 11 December 2008, Steve Holden wrote: >> re-present it to the filesystem to manipulate the file. What are we >> supposed to do with the "special type"? > > You receive from readdir() and pass it to stat(), simple as that. No > conversions from the native representation needed. If you need a textual > representation, then you have to convert it and you have to do so explicitly > according to whatever logic your application requires.
The simplest solution there is to have windows bytes APIs that return raw UTF-16 bytes (note that windows does NOT guaranteed to be valid unicode, despite being much more likely than on linux). The only real issue I see is that UTF-16 isn't an ASCII superset, so it won't print nicely. In other words, bytes can be your special type. -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus _______________________________________________ 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
