Changing filenames from Greeklish => Greek (subprocess complain)

[MRAB]

On 08/06/2013 17:53, Νικόλαος Κούρας wrote:
> Sorry for th delay guys, was busy with other thigns today and i am still reading your resposes, still ahvent rewad them all just Cameron's:
>
> Here is what i have now following Cameron's advices:
>
>
> #========================================================
> # Collect filenames of the path directory as bytes
> path = b'/home/nikos/public_html/data/apps/'
> filenames_bytes = os.listdir( path )
>
> for filename_bytes in filenames_bytes:
> 	try:
> 		filename = filename_bytes.decode('utf-8)
> 	except UnicodeDecodeError:
> 		# Since its not a utf8 bytestring then its for sure a greek bytestring
>
> 		# Prepare arguments for rename to happen
> 		utf8_filename = filename_bytes.encode('utf-8')
> 		greek_filename = filename_bytes.encode('iso-8859-7')
> 		
> 		utf8_path = path + utf8_filename
> 		greek_path = path + greek_filename
> 		
> 		# Rename current filename from greek bytes --> utf8 bytes
> 		os.rename( greek_path, utf8_path )
> ==========================================
>
> I know this is wrong though.

Yet you did it anyway!

> Since filename_bytes is the current filename encoded as utf8 or greek-iso
> then i cannot just *encode* what is already encoded by doing this:
>
> utf8_filename = filename_bytes.encode('utf-8')
> greek_filename = filename_bytes.encode('iso-8859-7')
>
Try reading and understanding the code I originally posted.