[ python-Bugs-1007046 ] os.startfile() doesn't accept Unicode filenames

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Bugs item #1007046, was opened at 2004-08-11 08:47
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Category: Extension Modules
Group: Python 2.3
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Matthias Huening (huening)
>Assigned to: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger)
Summary: os.startfile() doesn't accept Unicode filenames

Initial Comment:
WinXP, Python 2.3.4

os.startfile() seems to have problems with Unicode
filenames. Example:

>>> import tkFileDialog
>>> import os
>>> f = tkFileDialog.askopenfilename()
>>> type(f)
<type 'unicode'>
>>> os.startfile(f)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#10>", line 1, in -toplevel-
    os.startfile(f)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode
characters in position 14-16: ordinal not in range(128)
>>> 



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>Comment By: M.-A. Lemburg (lemburg)
Date: 2005-09-01 10:27

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The path looks OK, but I can't test it on Windows
(os.startfile() is only available on Windows).

A note on style: you should always try to keep lines shorter
than 80 characters, e.g.:

--- CVS-Python/Modules/posixmodule.c    2005-08-15
10:15:27.000000000 +0200
+++ Dev-Python/Modules/posixmodule.c    2005-09-01
10:23:06.555633134 +0200
@@ -7248,7 +7248,8 @@
 {
        char *filepath;
        HINSTANCE rc;
-       if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "s:startfile", &filepath))
+       if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "et:startfile",
+                             Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding,
&filepath))
                return NULL;
        Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
        rc = ShellExecute((HWND)0, NULL, filepath, NULL,
NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);



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Comment By: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger)
Date: 2005-08-24 07:18

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I'm unicode illiterate.  Passing to MAL for review.

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Comment By: Reinhold Birkenfeld (birkenfeld)
Date: 2005-06-26 23:24

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Attaching a patch which should fix that.

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