On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> try: >>> files = os.listdir(somedir, errors = strict) >>> except OSError as e: >>> log(<verbose error message that includes somedir and e>) >>> files = os.listdir(somedir)
Instead of a codecs error handler name, how about a callback for converting bytes to str? os.listdir(somedir, decoder=bytes.decode) os.listdir(somedir, decoder=lambda b: b.decode(preferredencoding, errors='xmlcharrefreplace')) os.listdir(somedir, decoder=repr) ISTM that would be simpler and more flexible than going over the codecs registry. One caveat though is that there's no obvious way of telling listdir to skip a name. But if the default behaviour for decoder=None is to skip with a warning, then the need to explicitly ask for files to be skipped would be small. Terry's example would then be: >>> try: >>> files = os.listdir(somedir, decoder=bytes.decode) >>> except UnicodeDecodeError as e: >>> log(<verbose error message that includes somedir and e>) >>> files = os.listdir(somedir) - Anders _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
