[Tutor] Confirm that Python 2.6 ftplib does not support Unicode file names? Alternatives?

[Lie Ryan]

On 06/24/10 02:10, python at bdurham.com wrote:
> Can someone confirm that Python 2.6 ftplib does *NOT* support
> Unicode file names? Or must Unicode file names be specially
> encoded in order to be used with the ftplib module?
> 

I don't know the specifics about ftplib, however I believe in most file
systems, file names are plain byte-strings, i.e. most file systems do
not handle encoding, they only deal with plain bytes.