[Python-checkins] r42490 - in python/branches/release24-maint: Lib/fileinput.py Lib/test/test_fileinput.py Misc/NEWS

[Georg Brandl]

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> 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.

Is that a new feature? I thought that wherever a filename is accepted,
it can be unicode too.

The previous behavior was a bug in any case, since it treated the
unicode string as a sequence of filenames. Would you fix that by
raising a ValueError?

Georg