Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: >> I do not accept an os.listdir() that raises an error because one >> filename cannot be decoded. It sounds like using errors='replace' is >> also wrong -- so the only solution is for os.listdir() to skip files it >> cannot decode. While this doesn't help for rmtree(), it is better than >> errors='replace' for code that descends into the tree looking for files >> matching a pattern or other property. So I propose this as a patch for 3.0. > > As much as this maybe the right idea, I don't like the idea of > silently losing the contents of a directory. That's asking for > difficult to discover bugs.
Well, the other approaches also cause difficult to discover bugs (the original bug report here was an example :-). > Could Python emit a warning in this case? This may be the best compromise yet. It would have to use the warnings module so that you could disable it. _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3187> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
