[New-bugs-announce] [issue17588] runpy cannot run Unicode path on Windows

[Drekin]

New submission from Drekin:

runpy.run_path("\u222b.py") raises UnicodeEncodeError when trying to use mbcs codec on Windows. However opening the file using open() is ok. So why is runpy trying to encode the name using mbcs encoding when it's not necessary or even correct? See http://bpaste.net/show/aOqQLMyYAAFTJ8pQnkli/ .

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components: Library (Lib), Unicode, Windows
messages: 185634
nosy: Drekin, ezio.melotti
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: runpy cannot run Unicode path on Windows
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.3

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