[Python-3000] Unicode and OS strings (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Sat Sep 22 00:17:13 CEST 2007


"Michael Urman" <murman at gmail.com> wrote in message news:dcbbbb410709210822p354ef608o6cd01994a67710f1 at mail.gmail.com...

| If there's not something straightforward to put in the ... below that | would allow simple iteration and processing of all files passed on the | command line, preferably interchangeably on both unix (where filenames | cannot necessarily be converted to Unicode) and Windows NT and up | (where filenames cannot necessarily be represented by bytestrings, and | arguments don't necessarily come in as bytes), then I will be one of | many disappointed people.

Perhaps we need one or more library functions (generators) to hide the OS differences and corner-case details.



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