Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: So shutil should be fixed to pass a bytes value to os.listdir(). But then os.remove() should be fixed to accept bytes as well. This is the crux I believe: on Unix at least, syscall wrappers should accept bytes for filenames. And this would then have to be extended to things like the functions in os.path, and we'd need bytes versions of os.sep and os.altsep... This sounds like a good project for 3.1.
I do not accept an os.listdir() that raises an error because one filename cannot be decoded. It sounds like using errors='replace' is also wrong -- so the only solution is for os.listdir() to skip files it cannot decode. While this doesn't help for rmtree(), it is better than errors='replace' for code that descends into the tree looking for files matching a pattern or other property. So I propose this as a patch for 3.0. The callback variant is too complex; you could write it yourself by using os.listdir() with a bytes argument. This also applies to proposals like passing optional encoding and errors arguments to os.listdir(). _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3187> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
