#Here is the script#Python 2.3 on W2K import glob name = glob.glob(u"./*.mp3")[0]print type(name)name = glob.glob(u"*.mp3")[0]print type(name) ##OUTPUT###<type 'unicode'>#<type 'str'> #The second line should be <type 'unicode'> too.

Logged In: YES user_id=33168The attached patch fixes the problem and all tests pass onLinux.  But I'm not really sure if this should be fixed ornot.  Perhaps someone more familiar with unicode andfilenames (like Martin or Marc-Andre?) could providefeedback.  I don't know if this could create any problems onWindows.Changing to a patch.

Logged In: YES user_id=12579I wrote a slightly different patch that converts theos.curdir to Unicode inside glob but the patch here is justas good. The nnorwitz patch works well for me on Windowswith Unicode file names:>>> glob.glob("*")['a.bat', 'abc', 'ascii', 'b.bat', 'fileobject.c','fileobject.c.diff', 'Gr\xfc\xdf-Gott', 'pep-0277.txt','posixmodule.c', 'posixmodule.c.diff', 'uni.py','winunichanges.zip', 'Ge??-sa?', '????????????', '??????','???', '????G\xdf', '???']>>> glob.glob(u"*")[u'a.bat', u'abc', u'ascii', u'b.bat', u'fileobject.c',u'fileobject.c.diff', u'Gr\xfc\xdf-Gott', u'pep-0277.txt',u'posixmodule.c', u'posixmodule.c.diff', u'uni.py',u'winunichanges.zip',u'\u0393\u03b5\u03b9\u03ac-\u03c3\u03b1\u03c2',u'\u0417\u0434\u0440\u0430\u0432\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0443\u0439\u0442\u0435',u'\u05d4\u05e9\u05e7\u05e6\u05e5\u05e1',u'\u306b\u307d\u3093',u'\u66e8\u05e9\u3093\u0434\u0393\xdf', u'\u66e8\u66e9\u66eb'] Here is my patch if you are interested:--- glob.py     Wed Jun 06 06:24:38 2001+++ g:\Python23\Lib\glob.py     Sun Aug 01 23:50:43 2004@@ -19,7 +19,10 @@             return []     dirname, basename = os.path.split(pathname)     if not dirname:-        return glob1(os.curdir, basename)+        # Use the current directory but match the argument+        # string form, either unicode or string.+        dirname = type(dirname)(os.curdir)+        return glob1(dirname, basename)     elif has_magic(dirname):         list = glob(dirname)     else:@@ -40,7 +43,7 @@     return result def glob1(dirname, pattern):-    if not dirname: dirname = os.curdir+    assert dirname     try:         names = os.listdir(dirname)     except os.error:

Logged In: YES user_id=21627The patch in itself is fine - it is policy that file namefunctions return Unicode strings for unicode arguments.The test is flawed, though: there is no guarantee that thestring and the Unicode result compare equal (seenyamatongwe's message) - there isn't even a guarantee thatthey compare without raising an exception.Also, there is currently no guarantee thatunicode-in-unicode-out works on all platforms. For example,on Windows 95, this hasn't been implemented (and neither onOS/2). So I would:a) drop the test checking for equalityb) consider returns-not-unicode a failure only if os.listdirdoes return unicode for unicode arguments.

Shouldn't the conversion to Unicode use the filesystem encoding?

gbrandl: you are right, it should.

Committed corrected patch asrev. 54197, 54198 (2.5).

2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jul 10 2008, 17:24:48)Fails for me with 2.5.1 on Linux, OS X, and Windows.>>> glob.glob("*")['t.txt', 't\xd0\xb4.txt', 't\xe2\xbd\x94.txt']>>> glob.glob(u"*")['t.txt', 't\xd0\xb4.txt', 't\xe2\xbd\x94.txt']>>> glob.glob(u"./*")[u'./t.txt', u'./t\u0434.txt', u'./t\u2f54.txt']