popen and unicode

[Stuart McGraw]

Thanks for the info, Neil.

I tried using spawnv too, with slightly different but still 
unsuccessful results.  With spawn, the spawned program
is receiving unicode characters, but non-ascii range
characters have been converted to unicode "?" before
the spawned program receives them. .

I looked into calling the Windows API using Ctypes but how 
to convert a C *File pointer returned by Windows' popen() 
to something that Python could use, was not at all clear to 
me.  I guess it would be fairly simple with a C extension, but 
that is a bit beyond me at this point.

So, to my surprise, I conclude that it is not currently feasible
to work with the process stuff and unicode file names on a 
Windows machine with Python.  I would still love to find out 
I am wrong though.  And I think this info should be in the 
documentation.  It would have saved me a couple day's 
work.

"Neil Hodgson" <nhodgson at bigpond.net.au> wrote in message news:X6Psc.10837$L.2358 at news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> Stuart McGraw:
> 
> > Does os.popen() work with unicode strings containing characters outside
> > the ASCII range?  (I think I answered my own question, above.)
> 
>    There is no Unicode support in the current implementation of popen. This
> could be added in a similar way to the Unicode file name support but it is
> more work than I currently have time for. If you are interested in fixing
> this, the code is in dist/src/Modules/posixmodule.c _PyPopenCreateProcess.
> 
> > How can I call popen to process non-ascii filenames on a Windows box?
> > Is there anything else I could use (e.g. spawn) that will work with
> unicode
> > filnames?
> 
>    You can use ctypes to call the underlying platform APIs.
> 
>    Neil
> 
>