[Python-ideas] os.listdir default to '.' (original) (raw)

Mathias Panzenböck grosser.meister.morti at gmx.net
Thu Jan 12 19:46:12 CET 2012

IIRC for Python 2 under Windows os.listdir(".") does something different than os.listdir(u"."). Because I think there are two filesystem APIs under Windows, one using char and the other wchar_t. (I don't use Windows so I could be mistaken.)

But anyway, under any OS Python 2 returns something else whether you pass a unicode or str object to listdir (a list of unicode or string objects). Under Python 3 there is no unicode because str is what under Python 2 was unicode.

So under Python 2 os.listdir() would be not good. What should it return? strs or unicodes?

On 01/12/2012 04:02 PM, Michael Foord wrote:

Hello all,

I frequently use Python from the interactive interpreter as a shell. It is a frequent, but mild, irritant that I have to type os.listdir('.') instead of just os.listdir(). How about making '.' a default argument for os.listdir ? All the best, Michael -- http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ May you do good and not evil May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others May you share freely, never taking more than you give. -- the sqlite blessinghttp://www.sqlite.org/different.html

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