>>>>> Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> (ND) wrote:
>ND> In article <m2ocueq6mm....@cs.uu.nl>, Piet van Oostrum <p...@cs.uu.nl>
>ND> wrote:
>>> >>>>> Ronald Oussoren <ronaldousso...@mac.com> (RO) wrote:
>>> >RO> For what it's worth, the OSX API's seem to behave as follows:
>>> >RO> * If you create a file with an non-UTF8 name on a HFS+ filesystem the
>>> >RO> system automaticly encodes the name.
>>>
>>> >RO> That is, open(chr(255), 'w') will silently create a file named '%FF'
>>> >RO> instead of the name you'd expect on a unix system.
>>>
>>> Not for me (I am using Python 2.6.2).
>>>
>>> >>> f = open(chr(255), 'w')
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>>> IOError: [Errno 22] invalid mode ('w') or filename: '\xff'
>>> >>>
>ND> What version of OSX are you using? On Tiger 10.4.11 I see the failure
>ND> you see but on Leopard 10.5.6 the behavior Ronald reports.
Yes, I am using Tiger (10.4.11). Interesting that it has changed on Leopard.
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Piet van Oostrum <p...@cs.uu.nl>
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