What is the best way to deal with non-ASCII paths when working with the python standard library? Specifically, when using functions like open() and the os and glob modules, what should be passed in? What should I expect out?
In experimenting with it, it appears that these libraries accept str objects containing UTF-8 encoded bytes and similarly that is what they return. It would seem better to me if they could be made to accept and return unicode objects, but I could see that that might cause backwards compatibility problems. Still, is UTF-8 encoded strs really a safe bet? Are there circumstances, including non HFS filesystems, where it will bite me if I make this assumption? Nick _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
