Vernon Cole wrote: > 2) I suspect that Python is NOT returning question mark characters. > Windows (or KIMODO) is probably failing to display some characters > that Python is returning.
Actually, you're wrong here. The Windows API is returning the file names in Unicode. The "os.listdir" function wants to return an 8-bit string, so it converts the Unicode names using some encoding, which can probably be predicted. Characters which do not exist in that encoding are changed to ? by the decode error process. So, by the time os.listdir returns, the file names really DO have "?" characters in them. > to see what is really in that object. You cannot expect your display > to have the glyph for every arbitrary unicode code point, so repr() > will display it with backslash escapes so that you can tell what is > there. > Yes, but in that case, you'll get an error when you try to print it, not just "?" characters. > 3) The documentation for "os.listdir(path)" says: "Changed in version > 2.3: On Windows NT/2k/XP and Unix, if path is a Unicode object, the > result will be a list of Unicode objects." Make sure that your path > argument is a unicode object. > THIS is the solution to his problem. -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32