gabor schrieb:
> 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).
Of course, it's possible to implement this on top of the existing
listdir operation.
def failing_listdir(dirname, mode):
result = os.listdir(dirname)
if mode != 'strict': return result
for r in result:
if isinstance(r, str):
raise UnicodeDecodeError
return result
Regards,
Martin
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