Bugs item #1283895, was opened at 2005-09-07 14:30 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by loewis You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1283895&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Windows Group: Python 2.4 >Status: Closed >Resolution: Invalid Priority: 5 Submitted By: Antoine Pitrou (pitrou) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: os.path.abspath() / os.chdir() buggy with unicode paths Initial Comment: Hi, Under Windows Explorer, one can create directory names using characters not belonging to the user locale. For example, one of our users created a directory named "C:\Mes Documents\コピー ～ solipsis_svn". Unfortunately, when trying to manipulate such a pathname, os.path.abspath() and os.chdir() don't work hand in hand. os.path.abspath() uses the garbled directory name as displayed by the command prompt and then os.chdir() refuses the path: C:\>cd "C:\Mes Documents\??? ~ solipsis_svn" C:\Mes Documents\??? ~ solipsis_svn>python Python 2.4.1 (#65, Mar 30 2005, 09:13:57) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> >>> import os >>> os.curdir '.' >>> os.path.abspath(os.curdir) 'C:\\Mes Documents\\??? ~ solipsis_svn' >>> os.chdir(os.path.abspath(os.curdir)) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: 'C:\\Mes Documents\\??? ~ solipsis_svn' >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) Date: 2006-07-24 15:02 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=21627 This is not a bug. You need to use Unicode path names to operate on files with names outside of the system code page. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Neil Hodgson (nyamatongwe) Date: 2005-09-09 15:08 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=12579 This is using byte string arguments causing byte string processing rather than unicode calls with unicode processing. Windows code that may encounter file paths outside the default locale should stick to unicode for paths. Try converting os.curdir to unicode before calling other functions: os.path.abspath(unicode(os.curdir)) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Antoine Pitrou (pitrou) Date: 2005-09-07 14:36 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=133955 > "C:\Mes Documents\コピー ～ solipsis_svn" Gasp. Sourceforge escapes HTML entities instead of showing the real characters... These are Japanese characters, btw. It's easy to copy/paste some Japanese characters from a Web site and paste them into Windows Explorer to create a directory (at least it works with Mozilla Firefox). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1283895&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
