Created on 2008-05-15 01:16 by brodie, last changed 2009-05-16 11:21 by georg.brandl. This issue is now closed.
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| msg66839 - (view) | Author: Brodie Rao (brodie) | Date: 2008-05-15 01:16 | |
The documentation for os.listdir should mention that there's a possibility that it can fail to decode paths to unicode objects and that it returns str objects for those paths it couldn't decode. The documentation should also explain when this might happen, and perhaps how to deal with it. The cases that this could happen or how to work around it are beyond my knowledge, but #683592 does mention something about resetting the locale. I don't know if that comment is still relevant, or if it applies to all cases of decoding failure, however. I don't know if this behavior still exists in Python 2.6. If it does, the documentation for 2.6 should be amended as well. |
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| msg87628 - (view) | Author: Antoine Pitrou (pitrou) *  |
Date: 2009-05-12 13:31 | |
Is it about 2.6 or 3.0/3.1? This problem should have been solved in 3.1, by the way of special escaping for undecodable characters (that is, os.listdir() will always return strings rather than bytes objects, but some of those strings may have special escapes in them). |
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| msg87881 - (view) | Author: Georg Brandl (georg.brandl) * |
Date: 2009-05-16 11:21 | |
Fixed in r72678. |
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| Date | User | Action | Args |
| 2009-05-16 11:21:40 | georg.brandl | set | status: open -> closed resolution: fixed messages: + msg87881 |
| 2009-05-12 18:22:47 | loewis | set | versions: + Python 2.7, - Python 3.1 |
| 2009-05-12 13:31:13 | pitrou | set | nosy:
+ pitrou messages: + msg87628 |
| 2009-05-12 12:53:11 | ajaksu2 | set | priority: normal nosy: + loewis, haypo components: + Library (Lib), Unicode versions: + Python 2.6, Python 3.1, - Python 2.5, Python 2.4, Python 2.3 |
| 2008-05-15 01:16:47 | brodie | create | |