[Python-Dev] os.access and Unicode

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Apparently, os.access was forgotten when the file system encoding
was introduced in Python 2.2, and then it was again forgotten in
PEP 277.

I've now fixed it in the trunk (posixmodule.c:2.334), and I wonder
whether this is a backport candidate. People who try to invoke
os.access with a non-ASCII filename on non-NT+ systems will get
a UnicodeError; with the patch, the operation will succeed
(assuming the characters are all supported in the file system
encoding).
Should this be backported?

Regards,
Martin