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

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Georg Brandl wrote:
> 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?

No, but from the text in the NEWS file things sounded a lot
like a feature rather than a bug fix.

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