> How do get a printable unicode version of these path strings if they > contain none unicode data?
Define "printable". One way would be to use a regular expression, replacing all codes in a certain range with a question mark. > I'm guessing that an app has to understand that filenames come in two forms > unicode and bytes if its not utf-8 data. Why not simply return string if > its valid utf-8 otherwise return bytes? That would have been an alternative solution, and the one that 2.x uses for listdir. People didn't like it. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
