> Can you please type > paf = ['/home/donn/.fontypython/M\xc3\x96gul.pog'] > f = open(paf, "r") I think I was getting a ghost error from another try somewhere higher up. You are correct, this does open the file - no matter what the locale is.
I have decided to keep the test for a decode error because files created under different locales should not be written-to under the current one. I don't know if one can mix encodings in a single text file, but I don't have time to find out. It is getting messy with my test files created in differing locales, and my code changing so quickly. > See above. The encoding in codecs.open has no effect at all on > the file name; it only talks about the file content. Thanks, I suspected as much but it's a subtle thing. Best, \d -- "It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe.." -- Richard Dawkins Fonty Python and other dev news at: http://otherwiseingle.blogspot.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
