On Oct 17, 12:52 pm, Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 16, 9:20 pm, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Oct 17, 11:43 am, Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I've got a bunch of files with Japanese characters in their names and > > > os.listdir() replaces those characters with ?'s. I'm trying to open > > > the files several steps later, and obviously Python isn't going to > > > find '01-????.jpg' (formally '01-ひらがな.jpg') because it doesn't exist. > > > I'm not sure where in the process I'm able to stop that from > > > happening. Thanks. > > > The Fine Manual says: > > """ > > listdir( path) > > > Return a list containing the names of the entries in the directory. > > The list is in arbitrary order. It does not include the special > > entries '.' and '..' even if they are present in the directory. > > Availability: Macintosh, Unix, Windows. > > Changed in version 2.3: On Windows NT/2k/XP and Unix, if path is a > > Unicode object, the result will be a list of Unicode objects. > > """ > > > Are you unsure whether your version of Python is 2.3 or later? > > *** Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Feb 21 2008, 13:11:45) [MSC v.1310 32 > bit (Intel)] on win32. *** says my interpreter > > when it says "if path is a Unicode object...", does that mean the path > name must have a Unicode char?
If path is a Unicode [should read unicode] object of length > 0, then *all* characters in path are by definition unicode characters. Where are you getting your path from? If you are doing os.listdir(r'c: \test') then do os.listdir(ur'c:\test'). If you are getting it from the command line or somehow else as a variable, instead of os.listdir(path), try os.listdir(unicode(path)). If that fails with a message like "UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode .....", then you'll need something like os.listdir(unicode(path, encoding='cp1252')) # cp1252 being the most likely suspect :) I strongly suggest that you read this: http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/unicode which contains lots of useful information, including an answer to your original question. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
