In article <[email protected]>, Piet van Oostrum <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>> Ronald Oussoren <[email protected]> (RO) wrote: > >RO> For what it's worth, the OSX API's seem to behave as follows: > >RO> * If you create a file with an non-UTF8 name on a HFS+ filesystem the > >RO> system automaticly encodes the name. > > >RO> That is, open(chr(255), 'w') will silently create a file named '%FF' > >RO> instead of the name you'd expect on a unix system. > > Not for me (I am using Python 2.6.2). > > >>> f = open(chr(255), 'w') > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > IOError: [Errno 22] invalid mode ('w') or filename: '\xff' > >>>
What version of OSX are you using? On Tiger 10.4.11 I see the failure you see but on Leopard 10.5.6 the behavior Ronald reports. -- Ned Deily, [email protected] _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
