New submission from Florent Xicluna la...@yahoo.fr:
When the current working directory is not decodable, the os.getcwd() function
should raise an error.
sys.getfilesystemencoding()
'utf-8'
cwd=b'/tmp/\xe7'
os.mkdir(cwd); os.chdir(cwd)
os.getcwdb()
b'/tmp/\xe7'
os.getcwd() # Should raise
Florent Xicluna la...@yahoo.fr added the comment:
Actually, it is the documented behaviour.
http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/os.html#file-names-command-line-arguments-and-environment-variables
b'\xe7'.decode('utf-8', 'surrogateescape')
'\udce7'
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resolution: - invalid
stage: -
Philip Jenvey pjen...@underboss.org added the comment:
Right, this is an intentional change in behavior in Python 3.1, non-decodable
characters are now decoded to utf8b (via the surrogateescape error handler).
The unicode string returned from getcwd furthermore can be passsed around to
other
