os.path.exists and unicode filenames

2006-11-07 Thread Peter Bienstman
Hi, I'm trying to add support for unicode file names to my application. I'm running into problems with e.g. the os.path.exists routine, which complains if it gets passed a unicode string: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/mnemosyne/pyqt_ui/main_dlg.py",

mingw extension modules hang

2006-07-24 Thread Peter Bienstman
Hi, I'm having some problems with scripts using Python extension modules compiled using mingw. * Some of them work fine if I run them from a command prompt. However, if I double click on them, or run them from within IDLE, they seem to hang. * Other scripts always seem to hang, even if I start