[Python-3000] Unicode strings, identifiers, and import

[Giovanni Bajo]

On 18/05/2007 1.10, Guido van Rossum wrote:

 >> In fact, I have a question about this. Can anybody show me a valid
 >> multi-platform Python code snippet that, given a filename as *unicode*
 >> string,
 >> create a file with that name, possibly adjusting the name so to ignore an
 >> encoding problem (so that the function *always* succeed)?
 >>
 >> def dump_to_file(unicode_filename):
 >>      ...
 >>
 >>
 >> I attempted this a couple of times without being satisfied at all by the
 >> solutions.
 >
 > Why does it have to be cross-platform? The mapping from module names
 > to the filesystem is considered platform specific.

With cross-platform, I meant a snippet of code which worked on all platform. 
The canonicalization of the filename that is produced could of course be 
different on each plaform.
-- 
Giovanni Bajo