[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hmmm. After reading > http://kofoto.rosdahl.net/trac/wiki/UnicodeInPython I tried: > > system(cmd.encode(getfilesystemencoding())) > > which works (nothing else changed). But that seems odd - is this a bug > (the asymmetry - I read files with os.listdir with no explicit unicode > handling, but need to do something explicitly on output - seems wrong), > or am I going to be bitten by other errors later?
Whether or not listdir returns a Unicode string depends on whether you pass a Unicode string as the directory name. So if you change the directory name to be a byte string, the file name should be a byte string, too. And yes, it would be desirable to enhance system() to support Unicode strings; contributions in that direction are welcome (although one should then also support exec*(), spawn*(), popen*(), and the subprocess module). Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
