Skip Montanaro wrote:
> I say backport. If people were trying to call os.access with unicode
filenames it would have been failing and they were either avoiding unicode
filenames as a result or working around it some other way. I can't see how
making os.access work with unicode filenames is going to break existing
code.
The question is whether it would encourage conditional work-arounds. If
people will put into their code
if sys.version_info < (2,4,2):
import os, sys
def new_access(name, mode, old_access = os.access):
try:
return old_access(name, mode)
except UnicodeError:
return old_access(name.encode(
sys.getfilesystemencoding()), mode)
os.access = new_access
then backporting does not improve anything. OTOH, if people are likely
to say "yes, this was a bug in 2.4.0 and 2.4.1, you need atleast 2.4.2",
backporting will help.
Regards,
Martin
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