handling of non-ASCII filenames?

[Ulli Horlacher]

Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> > As I am Python newbie I have not quite understood the Python character
> > encoding scheme :-}
> >
> > Where can I find a good introduction of this topic?
> 
> Here are a couple of articles on the basics of Unicode:
> 
> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

I do Unicode programming for over 20 years. So, I do have a basic
understanding of it. I am just new to Python.


> http://nedbatchelder.com/text/unipain.html

Thanks. I will read it.


> If you can use Python 3

I cannot use it, because the Python compiler pyinstaller does not work
with it on Windows:

S:\python>pyinstaller.exe --onefile tk.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python35\Scripts\pyinstaller-script.py", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('PyInstaller==3.0', 'console_scripts', 'pyinstaller')()
  File "c:\python35\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources\__init__.py", line 558, in l
oad_entry_point
    return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
  File "c:\python35\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources\__init__.py", line 2682, in
load_entry_point
    return ep.load()
  File "c:\python35\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources\__init__.py", line 2355, in
load
    return self.resolve()
  File "c:\python35\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources\__init__.py", line 2361, in
resolve
    module = __import__(self.module_name, fromlist=['__name__'], level=0)
  File "c:\python35\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\__main__.py", line 21, in <mod
ule>
    import PyInstaller.building.build_main
  File "c:\python35\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\building\build_main.py", line
31, in <module>
    from ..depend import bindepend
  File "c:\python35\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\depend\bindepend.py", line 40,
 in <module>
    from ..utils.win32.winmanifest import RT_MANIFEST
  File "c:\python35\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\utils\win32\winmanifest.py", l
ine 97, in <module>
    from PyInstaller.utils.win32 import winresource
  File "c:\python35\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\utils\win32\winresource.py", l
ine 20, in <module>
    import pywintypes
  File "c:\python35\lib\site-packages\win32\lib\pywintypes.py", line 124, in <mo
dule>
    __import_pywin32_system_module__("pywintypes", globals())
  File "c:\python35\lib\site-packages\win32\lib\pywintypes.py", line 64, in __im
port_pywin32_system_module__
    import _win32sysloader
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.


With python 2.7, pyinstaller runs without problems.



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