[Python-Dev] test_pep277 vs Win98

[Mark Hammond]

> > The newish test_pep277 fails on Win98SE, then leaves behind a directory
> > named @test that causes 4 later tests to fail for bogus reasons.
> >
> > Anyone know whether this test is supposed to work <wink>?  Mark, Martin?
>
> It is not supposed to work on Win9x <wink/frown>
>
> Not exactly sure what to do about this.  Maybe we should expose
> posixmodule's unicode_file_names() function - some way of
> indicating if the
> underlying file system supports Unicode.

OK - in the efforts of actually progressing something <wink>, would you
prefer a patch that:

* Added os._get_windows_version() as an alias for the Win32 GetVersion()
function. We then clone the test in posixmodule.c for test_pep277.py, and
life is good.  This function would be generally useful - it is almost a FAQ
on c.l.python and all the answers are generally unsatisfactory.

* Added os._unicode_file_apis(), which exposes the internal posixmodule
function unicode_file_names().  Currently this is simply a GetVersion()
call, but later it may grow additional checks.

* Did something else completely <wink>

Mark.