[Python-3000] Unicode strings, identifiers, and import (original) (raw)

Giovanni Bajo rasky at develer.com
Fri May 18 01:14:00 CEST 2007

On 18/05/2007 1.10, Guido van Rossum wrote:

In fact, I have a question about this. Can anybody show me a valid multi-platform Python code snippet that, given a filename as unicode string, create a file with that name, possibly adjusting the name so to ignore an encoding problem (so that the function always succeed)?

def dump_to_file(unicode_filename): ...

I attempted this a couple of times without being satisfied at all by the solutions.

Why does it have to be cross-platform? The mapping from module names to the filesystem is considered platform specific.

With cross-platform, I meant a snippet of code which worked on all platform. The canonicalization of the filename that is produced could of course be different on each plaform.

Giovanni Bajo

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