[python-win32] SHFileOperation doesn't work with UNICODE file paths

[Shailesh Kumar]

Thanx Roger,

With regards,
-Shailesh


On 8/12/07, Roger Upole <rwupole at msn.com> wrote:
> Shailesh Kumar wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Kindly have a look at following sample.
> >
> > I am trying to copy files from a folder to another folder using SHFileOperation.
> > The folder name as well as file name contain characters from Hiragana
> > script (Japanese). Neither Copy nor Move operations work. The
> > operations work if the file path doesn't contain non-ascii characters.
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?
> >
> > I have PyWin32 - v 209.
> >
> > from win32com.shell import shell, shellcon
> >
> >
> > def fileOperation(source, destination, operation):
> >    result = shell.SHFileOperation((0, operation,
> >                           source, destination,
> >                           shellcon.FOF_NOCONFIRMATION |
> >                           shellcon.FOF_NOERRORUI | shellcon.FOF_SILENT))
> >    if result == 0:
> >        raise Exception("Operation failed")
> >    return result
> >
> > def copyFile(source, destination):
> >    return fileOperation(source, destination, shellcon.FO_COPY)
> >
> > def moveFile(source, destination):
> >    return fileOperation(source, destination, shellcon.FO_MOVE)
> >
> >
> > if __name__ == '__main__':
> >    "Lets do some testing of the above two functions"
> >    import os
> >    import sys
> >    testDir = ur"D:\\SHFOTestsDir"
> >    os.mkdir(testDir)
> >    "Some hiragana characters"
> >    smallA = u'\u3042'
> >    KA = u'\u304B'
> >    GI = u'\u304E'
> >    folder1Name = KA * 10
> >    folder2Name = GI * 10
> >    folder1Path = os.path.join(testDir, folder1Name)
> >    folder2Path = os.path.join(testDir, folder2Name)
> >    os.mkdir(folder1Path)
> >    os.mkdir(folder2Path)
> >    filenames = ()
> >    contents = '20' * 100
> >    for i in range(10):
> >        filename = KA * (i + 5)
> >        filepath = os.path.join(folder1Path, filename)
> >        f = open(filepath, 'w')
> >        f.write(contents)
> >        f.close()
> >        copyFile(filepath, folder2Path)
> >
> > With regards,
> > - Shailesh
>
> This is another issue with compatibility with Windows 98, which doesn't
> support the unicode version of this function directly.  It's still possible to
> wrap SHFileOperationW, but it takes some extra work.
>
> Python itself stops supporting Win98 as of 2.6, but Pywin32 will probably
> continue supporting it for some time since Mark usually creates releases
> for at least 2 prior versions of Python.
>
>             Roger
>
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