On Oct 17, 2:56 pm, Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not quite sure now if the problem is me, windows, or zipfile > (which I kinda failed to mention before). Using > os.listdir(unicode(os.listdir()))
You mean os.listdir(unicode(os.getcwd())), I presume. > seems to have been a step in the > right direction (thanks Chris and John). When testing things in the > python interpreter, I don't seem to hit issues after using the above > mentioned line. > > [code]>>> l = os.listdir(unicode(os.getcwd())) > >>> l > > u'01-\u3072\u3089\u304c\u306a.jpg' > u'02-\u3072\u3089\u304c\u306a.jpg' > u'03-\u3072\u3089\u304c\u306a.jpg' > > >>>for thing in l: > > ... print thing > 01-ひらがな.jpg > 02-ひらがな.jpg > 03-ひらがな.jpg > > [/code] > Yay. > > Having a file that tries "for thing in l: print thing" fails with: > > File "C:\Python25\Lib\encodings\cp437.py", line 12, in encode > return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_map) > UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode characters in > position 13-16: character maps to <undefined> > > I'm perfectly willing to let command prompt refuse to print that (it's > debugging only) if the next issue was resolved >_>: use print repr(thing) for debugging. > > """ > Note: There is no official file name encoding for ZIP files. If you > have unicode file names, please convert them to byte strings in your > desired encoding before passing them to write(). WinZip interprets all > file names as encoded in CP437, also known as DOS Latin. > """ > > I'm simply not sure what this means and how to deal with it. Step 1: Read appendix D of http://www.pkware.com/documents/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT Step 2: Note the change history at the start of that document: """ 6.3.0 -Added tape positioning storage 09/29/2006 parameters [snip] -Added option for Unicode filename storage """ Step 3: Read http://bugs.python.org/issue1734346 Step 4: Either wait for Python 2.7 or apply the patch to your own copy of zipfile ... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
