Martin v. Löwis wrote: > gabor schrieb: >> i also recommend this approach. >> >> also, raising an exception goes well with the principle of the least >> surprise imho. > > Are you saying you wouldn't have been surprised if that had been > the behavior?
yes, i would not have been surprised. because it's kind-of expected when dealing with input, that malformed input raises an unicode-exception. and i would also expect, that if os.listdir completed without raising an exception, then the returned data is correct. > How would you deal with that exception in your code? depends on the application. in the one where it happened i would just display an error message, and tell the admins to check the filesystem-encoding. (in other ones, where it's not critical to get the correct name, i would probably just convert the text to unicode using the "replace" behavior) what about using flags similar to how unicode() works? strict, ignore, replace and maybe keep-as-bytestring. like: os.listdir(dirname,'strict') i know it's not the most elegant, but it would solve most of the use-cases imho (at least my use-cases). gabor -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
