[Python-Dev] Filename as byte string in python 2.6 or 3.0?
glyph at divmod.com
glyph at divmod.com
Tue Sep 30 20:42:58 CEST 2008
On 06:16 pm, guido at python.org wrote:
>On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:12 AM, <glyph at divmod.com> wrote:
>>The one thing it doesn't do is expose the decoding rules for the
>>higher-
>>level applications to deal with. I am pretty sure I don't understand
>>how
>>the interaction between filesystem encoding and user locale works in
>>that
>>case, though, so I can't immediately recommend a way to do it.
>
>You can ask what the filesystem encoding is with
>sys.getfilesystemencoding(). On my Linux box I can make this return
>anything I like by setting LC_CTYPE=en_US.<whatever> (as long as
><whatever> is a recognized encoding). There are probably 5 other
>environment variables to influence this. :-(
Only 5? Great! :-)
>Of course that doesn't help for undecodable filenames, and in that
>case I don't think *anything* can help you unless you have a lot of
>additional knowledge about what the user might be doing, e.g. you know
>a few other encodings to try that make sense for their environment.
There are other ways to glean this knowledge; for example, looking at
the 'iocharset' or 'nls' mount options supplied to mount various
filesystems. I thought maybe Python (or some C library call) might be
invoking some logic that did something with data like that; if not,
great, one day when I have some free time (meaning: never) I can
implement that logic myself without duplicating a bunch of work.
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