[issue818059] os.listdir on empty strings. Inconsistent behaviour.

Benjamin Peterson added the comment: Superseded by #5913. -- resolution: -> duplicate status: open -> closed superseder: -> On Windows os.listdir('') -> cwd and os.listdir(u'') -> C:\ ___ Python tracker ___

[issue818059] os.listdir on empty strings. Inconsistent behaviour.

Changes by Daniel Diniz : -- nosy: +benjamin.peterson, pitrou type: -> behavior versions: +Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.0, Python 3.1 -Python 2.3 ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue818059] os.listdir on empty strings. Inconsistent behaviour.

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: This may become important when switching to python 3.0... When passed str(''), FindFirstFileA is called with "*.*". But when passed unicode(''), FindFirstFileW is called with L"\\*.*" !!! Attached patch fixes (and tests) the problem. I