On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:31:06 +0100, "\"Martin v. Löwis\"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >gabor schrieb: >>> All this code will typically work just fine with the current behavior, >>> so people typically don't see any problem. >>> >> >> i am sorry, but it will not work. actually this is exactly what i did, >> and it did not work. it dies in the os.path.join call, where file_name >> is converted into unicode. and python uses 'ascii' as the charset in >> such cases. but, because listdir already failed to decode the file_name >> with the filesystem-encoding, it usually also fails when tried with >> 'ascii'. > >Ah, right. So yes, it will typically fail immediately - just as you >wanted it to do, anyway; the advantage with this failure is that you >can also find out what specific file name is causing the problem >(whereas when listdir failed completely, you could not easily find > out the cause of the failure). > >How would you propose listdir should behave?
Umm, just a wild guess, but how about raising an exception which includes the name of the file which could not be decoded? Jean-Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list