>> I don't understand what you're saying. py3k filenames are all >> unicode, even on POSIX systems, > > > How is that possible on POSIX systems where the underlying file system > uses bytes for filenames? > > If I write a piece of Python code: > > filename = 'some path/some name' > > I might call it a filename, I might think of it as a filename, but it > *isn't*, it's a string in a Python program. It isn't a filename until > it hits the file system, and in POSIX systems that makes it bytes.
Python automatically encodes strings with the file system encoding before passing them to the POSIX API. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
