[Tutor] listdir, ispath and unicode (followup question)

[Poor Yorick]

I am running Windows 2000 English edition.  The filename contains 
cyrillic characters typed with a standard Windows 2000 IME when I 
created the file.  Here is  the result of your suggestion:

filename = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), os.listdir(os.getcwd())[0])

 >>> filename
'd:\\tmp2\\???????'
 >>> os.stat(filename)
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<pyshell#5>", line 1, in ?
   os.stat(filename)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'd:\\tmp2\\???????'



Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:

>On 31-Jul-2002 Poor Yorick wrote:
>
>>Thank you for your previous responses.  I am still having this difficulty:
>>
>> >>> filename = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), os.listdir(os.getcwd())[0])
>> >>> filename
>>'d:\\tmp2\\???????'
>> >>> os.path.isfile(filename)
>>0
>>
>>
>>The file, 'd:\\tmp2\\???????', is a text file which I created for 
>>testing this problem.  Any ideas why os.path.isfile function does not 
>>recognize this file?
>>
>
>os.path is a wrapper for various operating systems.  The isfile() function is
>itself a wrapper around os.stat()
>
>    try:
>        st = os.stat(path)
>    except os.error:
>        return 0
>    return stat.S_ISREG(st[stat.ST_MODE])
>
>so, does os.stat() raise os.error? or is the stat info returned incorrect.  If
>os.error is raised there should be more information available as well.  Try
>doing the os.stat() call from the interactive interpreter.
>
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