I've run into a bit of an issue iterating through files in python 3.0 and
3.1rc2. When it comes to a files with '\u200b' in the file name it gives the
error...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "ListFiles.py", line 19, in <module>
f.write("file:{0}\n".format(i))
File "c:\Python31\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 19, in encode
return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_table)[0]
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u200b' in
position
30: character maps to <undefined>
Code is as follows...
import os
f = open("dirlist.txt", 'w')
for root, dirs, files in os.walk("C:\\Users\\Filter\\"):
f.write("root:{0}\n".format(root))
f.write("dirs:\n")
for i in dirs:
f.write("dir:{0}\n".format(i))
f.write("files:\n")
for i in files:
f.write("file:{0}\n".format(i))
f.close()
input("done")
The file it's choking on happens to be a link that internet explorer
created. There are two files that appear in explorer to have the same name
but one actually has a zero width space ('\u200b') just before the .url
extension. In playing around with this I've found several files with the
same character throughout my file system. OS: Vista SP2, Language: US
English.
Am I doing something wrong or did I find a bug? It's worth noting that
Python 2.6 just displays this character as a ? just as it appears if you
type dir at the windows command prompt.
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