On approximately 4/29/2009 4:36 AM, came the following characters from
the keyboard of Cameron Simpson:
On 29Apr2009 02:56, Glenn Linderman <v+pyt...@g.nevcal.com> wrote:
os.listdir(b"")
I find that on my Windows system, with all ASCII path file names, that I
get quite different results when I pass os.listdir an empty str vs an
empty bytes.
Rather than keep you guessing, I get the root directory contents from
the empty str, and the current directory contents from an empty bytes.
That is rather unexpected.
So I guess I'd better suggest that a specific, equivalent directory name
be passed in either bytes or str form.
I think you may have uncovered an implementation bug rather than an
encoding issue (because I'd expect "" and b"" to be equivalent).
Me too.
In ancient times, "" was a valid UNIX name for the working directory.
POSIX disallows that, and requires people to use ".".
Maybe you're seeing an artifact; did python move from UNIX to Windows or the
other way around in its porting history? I'd guess the former.
Do you get differing results from listdir(".") and listdir(b".") ?
No. Both are the same as b""
How's python2 behave for ""? (Since there's no b"" in python2.)
Python2 os.listdir("") produces the same thing as Python3 os.listdir(b"")
Python2 os.listdir(u"") produces the same thing as Python3 os.listdir("")
Another phenomenon of note:
I created a directory named ábc. (Windows XP, Python 3.0.1, Python
2.6.1, SetConsoleOutputCP(65001))
Python3 os.listdir(b".") prints it as b"\xe1bc"
Python2 os.listdir(".") prints it as b"\xe1bc"
Python2 os.listdir(u".") prints it as u"\xe1bc"
Python3 os.listdir(".") prints it as "bc"
--
Glenn -- http://nevcal.com/
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