[Python-Dev] PEP 277 (unicode filenames): please review

[Martin v. Loewis]

"Neil Hodgson" <nhodgson@bigpond.net.au> writes:

>    There was a suggestion from David Ascher that supporting a Unicode
> version of getcwd would be useful and I agree as this will often feed into
> the other file handling calls. This one can't be finessed by checking an
> input argument for Unicode, so needs an extra name such as getcwdu. It'd be
> a good idea here to work out a naming convention for this distinction now so
> it can be used for more functions in the future.

Alternatively, a flag could do. Alas, it currently isn't in the PEP,
and unless there is easy agreement on how it should work, I think this
must be left for further study.

Regards,
Martin