STINNER Victor added the comment: 2013/8/21 Nick Coghlan <rep...@bugs.python.org>: > Which reminds me: I'm curious what "ls" currently does for malformed > filenames. The aim of this change would be to get 'python -c "import os; > print(os.listdir())"' to do the best it can to work without losing data in > such a situation.
The "ls" command works on bytes, not on characters. You can reimplement "ls" with: * Unicode: os.listdir(str), os.fsencode() and sys.stdout.buffer * bytes: os.listdir(bytes) and sys.stdout.buffer os.fsencode() does exactly the opposite of os.fsdecode(). There is a unit test to check that :-) I ensured that all OS functions can be used directly with bytes filenames in Python 3. That's why I added os.environb for example. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18713> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
