i18n: looking for expertise

["Martin v. Löwis"]

klappnase wrote:
> I am using python-2.3.4 and get unicode errors:
> 
> 
>>>>f = os.path.join(u'/home/pingu/phonoripper', u'\xc3\u20ac')
>>>>os.path.isfile(f)
> 
> True
> 
>>>>os.access(f, os.R_OK)
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position
> 24-25: ordinal not in range(128)

That's apparently a bug in os.access, which doesn't support Unicode file
names. As a work around, do

def access(name, mode, orig=os.access):
     try:
        return orig(name, mode)
     except UnicodeError:
        return orig(name.encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding(), mode))
os.access=access

Apparently, access is used so rarely that nobody has noticed yet (or
didn't bother to report). os.path.isfile() builds on os.stat(), which
does support Unicode file names.

Regards,
Martin