New submission from anatoly techtonik: This critical bug is one of the reasons that non-English speaking communities doesn't adopt Python as broadly as it happens in English world compared to other technologies (PHP etc.).
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import os os.mkdir(u'Русское имя') os.mkdir(u'English name') for r, dirs, files in os.walk('.'): print dirs This gives: ['English name'] [] Windows Vista. >dir /b English name test.py Русское имя ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 177276 nosy: techtonik priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: os.walk ignores international dirs on Windows versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16656> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com