On 12/21/19 8:25 PM, MRAB wrote: > On 2019-12-22 00:22, Michael Torrie wrote: >> On 12/21/19 2:46 PM, Ben Hearn wrote: >>> These 2 paths look identical, one from the drive & the other from an >>> xml url: >>> a = '/Users/macbookpro/Music/tracks_new/_NS_2018/J.Staaf - >>> ¡Móchate! _PromoMix_.wav' >> ^^ >>> b = '/Users/macbookpro/Music/tracks_new/_NS_2018/J.Staaf - ¡Móchate! >>> _PromoMix_.wav' >> ^^ >> They are actually are different strings. The name is spelled >> differently between the two. Móchate vs Móchate (the former seems to >> be the correct spelling according to my inline spell checker). Is this >> from your own program? I wonder how it got switched? >> > Use the 'ascii' function to see what's different: > > >>> ascii(a) > "'/Users/macbookpro/Music/tracks_new/_NS_2018/J.Staaf - > \\xa1Mo\\u0301chate! _PromoMix_.wav'" > >>> ascii(b) > "'/Users/macbookpro/Music/tracks_new/_NS_2018/J.Staaf - > \\xa1M\\xf3chate! _PromoMix_.wav'" > >>>
It is a Unicode Normalization issue. A number of characters can be 'spelled' different ways. ó can be either a single codepoint U+00F3, or it can be the pair of codepoints, the o and U+0301 (the accent). If you want to make the strings compare equal then you need to make sure that you have normalized both strings the same way. I beleive that the Mac OS always converts file names into the NFD format when it uses them (that is what the first (a) string is in) -- Richard Damon -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
