Victor Stinner writes: > I propose to raise Unicode errors if a filename cannot be decoded > on Windows, instead of creating a bogus filenames with questions > marks.
By "bogus" you mean "sometimes (?) invalid and the OS will refuse to use them, causing a later hard-to-diagnose exception", rather than "not what the user thinks he wants", right? In the "hard errors" case, a hearty +1 (I'm dealing with this in an experimental version of XEmacs and it's a right PITA if the codec doesn't complain). Backward compatibility is important, but here the costs of fixing such bugs outweigh the value of bug-compatibility. In the latter (doing things behind the users back rather than actually breaking the program), I'm basically +1 but do worry about backward compatibility. _______________________________________________ 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
