[pypy-issue] [issue1035] os.listdir(u".") raises UnicodeDecodeError when entries can not be decoded.

[Wouter van Heyst]

New submission from Wouter van Heyst <wouter.pypy at richtlijn.be>:

While working on getting the bzr testsuite running under pypy without any
errors I ran into this behavioural difference with CPython 2.x, originally filed as
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/927581

To reproduce:

    >> LANG=C python -c 'import os; os.mkdir("m\xb5"); os.mkdir("l")'
    >> LANG=C python -c 'import os; print os.listdir(u".")'
    ['m\xb5', u'l']
    >> LANG=C pypy -c 'import os; os.listdir(u".")'
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "app_main.py", line 51, in run_toplevel
      File "app_main.py", line 534, in run_it
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
    UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xb5 in position 1:
ordinal not in range(128)


http://docs.python.org/library/os.html?highlight=listdir#os.listdir explicitly
mentions that undecodable filenames will be returned as string objects.

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messages: 3876
nosy: larstiq, pypy-issue
priority: bug
status: unread
title: os.listdir(u".") raises UnicodeDecodeError when entries can not be decoded.

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