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[Neil Hodgson]

Michael:

> 5. file operations seem to be delicate; at least I got an error when I
> passed a filename that contains special characters as unicode to
> os.access(), so I guess that whenever I do file operations
> (os.remove(), shutil.copy() ...) the filename should be encoded back
> into system encoding before;

   This can lead to failure on Windows when the true Unicode file name can
not be encoded in the current system encoding.

   Neil