Problem in accessing files with unicode fonts.

[venu madhav]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Chris Rebert <clp2 at rebertia.com> wrote:

> A. Your reason for emailing us off-list makes no sense. The list would
> garner you more and about as quick responses, not to mention the value
> it adds through public archiving. CC-ing us /might/ have made slight
> sense.
> B. This is your problem:
>     v = unicode(full_path,errors='skip')
> I'd advise you to read the docs for `unicode`, particularly what using
> 'skip' as the value of `errors` does.
>
> Good day.
>
> - Chris
>
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> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:31 PM, venu madhav <venutaurus539 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >            Sorry for mailing to your personal mails instead of mailing to
> > the group. The reason being the intensity of the problem and time factor.
> >
> > Prob: I have a folder which contains files with unicode names ( Arabic,
> > German etc). I am trying to obtain the attributes of those files
> recursively
> > using win32api.getFileAttributes() function. Here is the code which i
> have
> > for the same:
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > #!/usr/bin/env python
> > import os
> > import os.path
> > import sys
> > import urllib
> > import win32api,string
> > def findFile(dir_path):
> >     for name in os.listdir(dir_path):
> >         full_path = os.path.join(dir_path, name)
> >         print full_path
> >         if os.path.isdir(full_path):
> >             findFile(full_path)
> >         else:
> >             v = unicode(full_path,errors='skip')
> >             i = win32api.GetFileAttributes(v)
> >
> > findFile("F:\\DataSet\\Unicode")
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > Now when I run this scirpt, the full_path variable which should contain
> the
> > name of the file has "????" for non english ( I tried Arabic) characters.
> As
> > a result the getfileattributes function is failing to recognise that file
> > and is raising an exception.
> > full_path: F:\DataSet\Unicode\Arabic
> files\Arabic??????????????????????????
> > {type is str}
> > v: F:\DataSet\Unicode\Arabic files\Arabic?????????????????????????? {type
> is
> > unicode}
> > TraceBack:
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "E:\venu\Testing Team\unitest.py", line 19, in <module>
> >     findFile("F:\\DataSet\\Unicode")
> >   File "E:\venu\Testing Team\unitest.py", line 13, in findFile
> >     findFile(full_path)
> >   File "E:\venu\Testing Team\unitest.py", line 16, in findFile
> >     i = win32api.GetFileAttributes(v)
> > error: (123, 'GetFileAttributes', 'The filename, directory name, or
> volume
> > label syntax is incorrect.')
> >
> > Waiting for your reply.
> > Thank you in advance.
> > Venu.
>

Hello,
        As you've said I went through the documentation for unicode
function.It takes the file name as the first argument and then based on the
second (whether you skip, ignore or strict) does the action. Any of those
ways is not solving my problem. Since, using skip or ignore removes the
unicode characters from the file name, the win32 function is failing to find
that filename. I tried to change the default encoding to unicode in site.py
scirpt but didn't give any results.


Thank you,
Venu
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