[Python-Dev] os.access and Unicode

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Brett C. wrote:
> Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> 
>> 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?

+1; it's a bug, not a new feature.

> If there was no other way to get os.access-like functionality, I would 
> say it should be backported.  But since there are other ways to figure 
> out everything that os.access can tell you I say don't backport and 
> amend the docs to state it is not Unicode-aware.  If one was adventurous 
> enough the docs could even include other ways to get the same info when 
> Unicode had to be used.

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