[python-win32] opening files with names in non-english characters.

[Ulrich Berning]

venu madhav wrote:

> Hello,
>         First of all thanks for your response. I've written a function 
> as shown below to recurse a directory and return a file based on the 
> value of n. I am calling this fucntion from my main code to catch that 
> filename. The folder which it recurses through contains a folder 
> having files with unicode names (as an example i've given earlier. 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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:
>             n = n - 1
>             if(n ==0):
>                 return full_path
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Because os.listdir() returns the list in arbitrary order (depends on 
platform and/or filesystem type), it is pretty useless to get the n'th 
file of a directory. With every call of your function, the n'th file may 
be a different one. Never rely on the order of items returned by 
os.listdir().

Ulli