LANG, locale, unicode, setup.py and Debian packaging
"Martin v. Löwis"
martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Jan 15 01:08:18 EST 2008
> Has it been decided how Python 3.0 will implement os.listdir on Unix?
> Will there be only a single attempt to encode using the current locale
> or will there be a backup technique?
That's what it currently does.
> I'd probably define an optional
> encoding parameter so you can ask for os.listdir(encoding="iso-8859-1")
> although that then propagates into open, ...
I had the same idea, and I think that parameter should be added.
For open(), I think we should continue to accept byte strings as file
names.
Regards,
Martin
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