[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r42490 - in python/branches/release24-maint: Lib/fileinput.py Lib/test/test_fileinput.py Misc/NEWS
M.-A. Lemburg
mal at egenix.com
Sun Feb 19 14:12:11 CET 2006
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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