>>>>> 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. -- Piet van Oostrum <p...@cs.uu.nl> URL: http://pietvanoostrum.com [PGP 8DAE142BE17999C4] Private email: p...@vanoostrum.org _______________________________________________ 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