[Python-ideas] os.listdir default to '.'

[Mathias Panzenböck]

IIRC for Python 2 under Windows os.listdir(".") does something different than os.listdir(u"."). 
Because I think there are two filesystem APIs under Windows, one using char and the other wchar_t. 
(I don't use Windows so I could be mistaken.)

But anyway, under any OS Python 2 returns something else whether you pass a unicode or str object to 
listdir (a list of unicode or string objects). Under Python 3 there is no unicode because str is 
what under Python 2 was unicode.

So under Python 2 os.listdir() would be not good. What should it return? strs or unicodes?

On 01/12/2012 04:02 PM, Michael Foord wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I frequently use Python from the interactive interpreter as a shell. It is a frequent, but mild,
> irritant that I have to type os.listdir('.') instead of just os.listdir().
>
> How about making '.' a default argument for os.listdir ?
>
> All the best,
>
> Michael
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