"Martin v. Löwis" wrote: >> My goal is to build generalized code that consistently works with all >> kinds of filenames. > > Then it is best to drop the notion that file names are > character strings (because some file names aren't). You > do so by converting your path variable into a byte > string. To do that, you could try > > path = path.encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding())
Shouldn't os.path.join do that? If you pass a unicode string and a byte string it currently tries to convert bytes to characters but it makes more sense to convert the unicode string to bytes and return two byte strings concatenated. Serge. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
