[Python-ideas] Introduce some obvious way to encode and decode filenames from Python code

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:49:52 +0100
Sven Marnach <sven at marnach.net> wrote:
> Currently, there is no obvious way to encode a filename in the default
> filesystem encoding.  To pipe some filenames to the stdin of a
> subprocess, I effectively used
> 
>     encoded_name = file_name.encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding())

Well, how about os.fsencode() and os.fsdecode()?

http://docs.python.org/dev/library/os.html#os.fsencode

Regards

Antoine.


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