os.lisdir, gets unicode, returns unicode... USUALLY?!?!?

[gabor]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> gabor wrote:
> 
>> get an Unicode-exception, as everywhere else. you see, exceptions are 
>> ok, i can deal with them.
> 
>> p.s: one additional note. if you code expects os.listdir to return 
>> unicode, that usually means that all your code uses unicode strings. 
>> which in turn means, that those filenames will somehow later interact 
>> with unicode strings. which means that that byte-string-filename will 
>> probably get auto-converted to unicode at a later point, and that 
>> auto-conversion will VERY probably fail
> 
> it will raise an exception, most likely.  didn't you just say that 
> exceptions were ok?

yes, but it's raised at the wrong place imho :)

(just to clarify: simply pointing out this behavior in the documentation 
is also one of the possible solutions)

for me the current behavior seems as if file-reading would work like this:

a = open('foo.txt')
data = a.read()
a.close()

print data
 >>> TheFileFromWhichYouHaveReadDidNotExistException


gabor