[New-bugs-announce] [issue25867] os.stat raises exception when using unicode and no locale is set

[Ondrej Sejvl]

New submission from Ondrej Sejvl:

os.stat() raises exception UnicodeEncodeError when path is unicode and no locale is set in envinronment (this occures when running app with daemon tools -> LC_ALL=)

How to simulate:
$ env -i python
>>> import os
>>> os.stat(u"\xf0")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf0' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

Is this a valid behaviour? Then maybe some notification in documentation would be nice (I am using os.path.isfile and now UnicodeEncodeError raised...)

Thanks
Ondra

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messages: 256446
nosy: sejvlond
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: os.stat raises exception when using unicode and no locale is set

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