STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment: abspath() is implemented using nt._getfullpathname() which calls GetFullPathNameA().
> The returned path with question marks is completely useless. Can you open the file using such filename? If no, I agree that the result is useless. > It's better that python throw an error than return the question marks. Python is currently a thin wrapper on the Windows API. Windows doesn't consider that a filename with question marks as an error. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa364963%28v=vs.85%29.aspx Python can maybe uses GetFullPathNameW() and encode manually the filename using its strict MBCS codec. MBCS codec is strict since Python 3.2: it raises a UnicodeEncodeError if the string cannot be encoded. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13247> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
