Message 106149 - Python tracker

Message106149

Author	amaury.forgeotdarc
Recipients	MrJean1, amaury.forgeotdarc, loewis, mark.dickinson, michael.foord, ronaldoussoren, rpetrov, slmnhq, vstinner
Date	2010-05-20.12:57:31
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Message-id	<1274360253.08.0.657388853522.issue4388@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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What if os.system(), os.execvp() and friends used "wcstombs" (or locale.preferredencoding) to convert arguments from unicode to bytes? this would at least guarantee round-trip when spawning another python interpreter. An interesting test is to compare the effects of os.unlink(filename) and os.system('rm "%s"' % filename), where filename is non-ascii. Does it work today?

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What if os.system(), os.execvp() and friends used "wcstombs" (or locale.preferredencoding) to convert arguments from unicode to bytes? this would at least guarantee round-trip when spawning another python interpreter.

An interesting test is to compare the effects of os.unlink(filename) and os.system('rm "%s"' % filename), where filename is non-ascii. Does it work today?

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2010-05-20 12:57:33	amaury.forgeotdarc	set	recipients: + amaury.forgeotdarc, loewis, ronaldoussoren, mark.dickinson, vstinner, MrJean1, rpetrov, michael.foord, slmnhq
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