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Bug 764457 - UnicodeDecodeError with non-UTF-8 filenames
UnicodeDecodeError with non-UTF-8 filenames
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 746564
Product: pygobject
Classification: Bindings
Component: gio
3.10.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nobody's working on this now (help wanted and appreciated)
Python bindings maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-04-01 10:14 UTC by Dennis Tomas
Modified: 2016-04-01 12:12 UTC
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Description Dennis Tomas 2016-04-01 10:14:06 UTC 
In Python3, Gio.FileInfo.get_name() raises a UnicodeDecodeError for non-UTF-8 filenames. This is odd, because attribute Gio.FILE_ATTRIBUTE_STANDARD_NAME is supposed to be of type Gio.FileAttributeType.BYTE_STRING. In fact, Gio.FileInfo.get_name() (and Gio.FileInfo.get_attribute_byte_string() as well) always returns str objects, not bytes objects.
Comment 1 Dennis Tomas 2016-04-01 10:14:28 UTC 
Steps to reproduce:

>>> from gi.repository import Gio
>>> import os
>>> os.makedirs(b'\xf6')
>>> directory = Gio.File.new_for_path('.')
>>> for file_info in directory.enumerate_children(Gio.FILE_ATTRIBUTE_STANDARD_NAME, 0, None):
>>>   print(file_info.get_name())
[...]
Traceback (most recent call last):

+ Trace 236135

  • File "<stdin>", line 2 in <module>
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xf6 in position 0: invalid start byte 






Comment 2


Christoph Reiter (lazka)





          2016-04-01 12:12:00 UTC
        




*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 746564 ***