On 2006-11-09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > you could also use encode("iso-8859-1") to nterpret just the > printed name such as: print myfilename.encode("iso-8859-1") > > and by the way if you wanted the file NAME you could have used > openfilename() instead of openfile() ;-)
The encoding of the filenames in the file system is available from sys.getfilesystemencoding(). That might turn out to be useful when interpreting them. -- Neil Cerutti Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer. --David Acfield -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list