In article <m2ocueq6mm....@cs.uu.nl>, Piet van Oostrum <p...@cs.uu.nl>
wrote:
> >>>>> Ronald Oussoren <ronaldousso...@mac.com> (RO) wrote:
> >RO> For what it's worth, the OSX API's seem to behave as follows:
> >RO> * If you create a file with an non-UTF8 name on a HFS+ filesystem the
> >RO> system automaticly encodes the name.
>
> >RO> That is, open(chr(255), 'w') will silently create a file named '%FF'
> >RO> instead of the name you'd expect on a unix system.
>
> Not for me (I am using Python 2.6.2).
>
> >>> f = open(chr(255), 'w')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> IOError: [Errno 22] invalid mode ('w') or filename: '\xff'
> >>>
What version of OSX are you using? On Tiger 10.4.11 I see the failure
you see but on Leopard 10.5.6 the behavior Ronald reports.
--
Ned Deily,
n...@acm.org
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