[Python-ideas] Introduce some obvious way to encode and decode filenames from Python code

[Sven Marnach]

Antoine Pitrou schrieb am Mon, 16. Jul 2012, um 17:49:56 +0200:
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:49:52 +0100
> Sven Marnach <sven at marnach.net> wrote:
> > Currently, there is no obvious way to encode a filename in the default
> > filesystem encoding.  To pipe some filenames to the stdin of a
> > subprocess, I effectively used
> > 
> >     encoded_name = file_name.encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding())
> 
> Well, how about os.fsencode() and os.fsdecode()?
> 
> http://docs.python.org/dev/library/os.html#os.fsencode

Oh, great, there they are!  I think these functions should be
mentioned in these sections to make them easier to find:

[1]: http://docs.python.org/dev/library/os.html#file-names-command-line-arguments-and-environment-variables
[2]: http://docs.python.org/dev/library/sys.html#sys.getfilesystemencoding
[3]: http://docs.python.org/dev/howto/unicode.html#unicode-filenames

I'll post an issue on the issue tracker.

Cheers,
    Sven