ah! an interesting point! hmm yes when i'm running parallels, both the source and destination are sortof "Network Drive"'s, they're actually my native mac drives (file system reported as "PrlSF"). In this situation all works well. the reported getfilesystemencoding() is 'mbcs' which is a convenient lie according to the python docs: "On Windows NT+, file names are Unicode natively, so no conversion is performed. getfilesystemencoding() still returns 'mbcs', as this is the encoding that applications should use when they explicitly want to convert Unicode strings to byte strings that are equivalent when used as file names".
when i run natively, the drive is NOT a network drive, it is my mac drive supported by "MacDrive" and the file system is reported as "HFSJ". it seems the getfilesystemencoding() should take a drive letter as a parameter cuz the encoding can be different per drive? maybe? but now i think perhaps the problem is with MacDrive? but it works flawlessly with all other software. hmmm. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
