Why are these new features being backported to 2.4 ? georg.brandl wrote:

Author: georg.brandl Date: Sun Feb 19 10:51:33 2006 New Revision: 42490

Modified: python/branches/release24-maint/Lib/fileinput.py python/branches/release24-maint/Lib/test/test_fileinput.py python/branches/release24-maint/Misc/NEWS Log: Patch #1337756: fileinput now accepts Unicode filenames.

Modified: python/branches/release24-maint/Lib/fileinput.py ============================================================================== --- python/branches/release24-maint/Lib/fileinput.py (original) +++ python/branches/release24-maint/Lib/fileinput.py Sun Feb 19 10:51:33 2006 @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ """

def __init__(self, files=None, inplace=0, backup="", bufsize=0): - if type(files) == type(''): + if isinstance(files, basestring): files = (files,) else: if files is None:

Modified: python/branches/release24-maint/Lib/test/test_fileinput.py ============================================================================== --- python/branches/release24-maint/Lib/test/test_fileinput.py (original) +++ python/branches/release24-maint/Lib/test/test_fileinput.py Sun Feb 19 10:51:33 2006 @@ -157,3 +157,13 @@ verify(fi.lineno() == 6) finally: remove_tempfiles(t1, t2) + +if verbose: + print "15. Unicode filenames" +try: + t1 = writeTmp(1, ["A\nB"]) + fi = FileInput(files=unicode(t1, sys.getfilesystemencoding())) + lines = list(fi) + verify(lines == ["A\n", "B"]) +finally: + remove_tempfiles(t1)

Modified: python/branches/release24-maint/Misc/NEWS ============================================================================== --- python/branches/release24-maint/Misc/NEWS (original) +++ python/branches/release24-maint/Misc/NEWS Sun Feb 19 10:51:33 2006 @@ -74,6 +74,8 @@ Library -------

+- Patch #1337756: fileinput now accepts Unicode filenames. + - Patch #1373643: The chunk module can now read chunks larger than two gigabytes.

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