Problem with os.access with unicode filenames

[Walter Dörwald]

TheAZN wrote:

> The os.access function gives me this error:
> 
> "UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\ub4' in 
> position 31: ordinal not in range(128)"
> 
> when I use the os.access function with an Unicode string which contains a 
> character u'\u00b4'.
> 
> Oddly enough in IDLE: if I do "print u'\ub4'"  I get an error, but it 
> doesn't give me an error if I do "print u'\ub00b4'"

The message is fixed now in CVS, i.e. the UnicodeEncodeError
will now state
"UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xb4' in
position 31: ordinal not in range(128)"

> Is there a way to get around this?  It works fine when the file name does 
> not contain that character.

This depends on your OS. posixmodule.c::posix_access() does not support
Unicode strings, but it should work if you encode the filename with your
filesystem encoding before calling os.access(). Don't know about
Windows.

Bye,
    Walter Dörwald