[ python-Bugs-924703 ] test_unicode_file fails on Win98SE

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Bugs item #924703, was opened at 2004-03-27 20:48
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Category: Unicode
Group: Python 2.4
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Tim Peters (tim_one)
Assigned to: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Summary: test_unicode_file fails on Win98SE

Initial Comment:
In current CVS, test_unicode_file fails on Win98SE.  This 
has been going on for some time, actually.

ERROR: test_single_files (__main__.TestUnicodeFiles)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ".../lib/test/test_unicode_file.py", line 162, in 
test_single_files
    self._test_single(TESTFN_UNICODE)
  File ".../lib/test/test_unicode_file.py", line 136, in 
_test_single
    self._do_single(filename)
  File ".../lib/test/test_unicode_file.py", line 49, in 
_do_single
    new_base = unicodedata.normalize("NFD", new_base)
TypeError: normalized() argument 2 must be unicode, 
not str

At this point,

filename is TESTFN_UNICODE is
u'@test-\xe0\xf2'

os.path.abspath(filename) is
'C:\Code\python\PC\VC6\@test-\xe0\xf2'

new_base is
'@test-\xe0\xf2

So abspath() removed the "Unicodeness" of filename, 
and new_base is indeed not a Unicode string at this 
point.

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>Comment By: Tim Peters (tim_one)
Date: 2004-03-30 00:44

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Just a guess:  the os.path functions are generally just string 
manipulation, and on Windows I sometimes import 
posixpath.py directly to do Unixish path manipulations.  So it's 
conceivable that someone (not me) on a non-Windows box 
imports ntpath directly to manipulate Windows paths.

In fact, I see that Fredrik's "Python Standard Library" book 
explicitly mentions this use case for importing ntpath directly.  
So maybe he actually did it -- once <wink>.

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Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2004-03-30 00:25

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I see. I'll look into changing _getfullpathname to return
Unicode output for Unicode input even if
unicode_file_names() is false.

However,  I do wonder what the purpose of _abspath then is:
On what system would it be used???

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Comment By: Tim Peters (tim_one)
Date: 2004-03-29 18:11

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Nope, that can't help -- ntpath.py's _abspath doesn't exist 
on Win98SE (the "from nt import _getfullpathname" succeeds, 
so _abspath is never defined).  It's _getfullpathname() that's 
taking a Unicode input and returning a str output here.


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Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2004-03-29 17:17

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abspath(unicode) should return a Unicode path.

Does it help if _abspath (in ntpath.py) is changed to contain

            if not isabs(path):
                if isinstance(path, unicode): cwd = os.getcwdu()
                else: cwd = os.getcwd()
                path = join(cwd, path)



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