[Tutor] UTF-8 filenames encountered in os.walk

[Terry Carroll]

On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:

> Has anyone found a silver bullet for ensuring that all the filenames
> encountered by os.walk are treated as UTF-8?  Thanks.

What happens if you specify the starting directory as a Unicode string, 
rather than an ascii string, e.g., if you're walking the current 
directory:
 
 for thing in os.walk(u'.'):

instead of:

 for thing in os.walk('.'):