On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:28 PM, dave <anbaricfo...@gmail.com> wrote: > figure it out. it's very easy to test it yourself, just make a file > with the section symbol in it, then try to copy it with python 2.7.1
This works fine for me on Windows XP and python 2.6.4 on an NTFS formatted drive. Are either your source or destination network drives? What does sys.getfilesystemencoding() say the encoding of your filesystem is? -- Jerry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list