[Python-Dev] os.access and Unicode (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Mar 11 10:49:35 CET 2005

Skip Montanaro wrote:

I say backport. If people were trying to call os.access with unicode filenames it would have been failing and they were either avoiding unicode filenames as a result or working around it some other way. I can't see how making os.access work with unicode filenames is going to break existing code.

The question is whether it would encourage conditional work-arounds. If people will put into their code

if sys.version_info < (2,4,2): import os, sys def new_access(name, mode, old_access = os.access): try: return old_access(name, mode) except UnicodeError: return old_access(name.encode( sys.getfilesystemencoding()), mode) os.access = new_access

then backporting does not improve anything. OTOH, if people are likely to say "yes, this was a bug in 2.4.0 and 2.4.1, you need atleast 2.4.2", backporting will help.

Regards, Martin

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