This: for root, dirs, files in os.walk(search_path): for f in files: print f
############### Produces this: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/brad/Desktop/my_script.pyw", line 340, in -toplevel- hunt(target_files(search_path, skip_file_extensions(), skip_files()), path_to_results) File "/home/brad/Desktop/my_script.pyw", line 161, in target_files for root, dirs, files in os.walk(search_path): File "os.py", line 291, in walk for x in walk(path, topdown, onerror): File "os.py", line 291, in walk for x in walk(path, topdown, onerror): File "os.py", line 281, in walk if isdir(join(top, name)): File "posixpath.py", line 65, in join path += '/' + b UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128) ################## I'm running Python 2.4.4c1 (#2, Oct 11 2006, 21:51:02) [GCC 4.1.2 20060928 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-13ubuntu5)] on linux2 Any ideas? I can't catch this with try/except and using unicode(f) doesn't help either. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list