> It'd be great if all programs used the same encoding on a given OS, > but at least on Linux, I believe historically filenames have been > created with different encodings. IOW, if I pick one encoding and go > with it, filenames written in some other encoding are likely to cause > problems. So I need something for which a filename is just a blob > that shouldn't be monkeyed with.
In that case, you should use byte strings as file names, not character strings. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
