Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.lang.python > #100446

Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename

Show all headers | View raw

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 6:07 PM, Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> wrote:
> In a message of Mon, 14 Dec 2015 23:41:21 +0100, "Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn" wr
> ites:
>
>>Why do you have to use msvcrt?
>>
>>I would use curses for user input, but:
>>
>>,-<https://docs.python.org/2/howto/curses.html?highlight=user%20input>
>>,-<https://docs.python.org/3.2/howto/curses.html?highlight=user%20input>
>>|
>>| No one has made a Windows port of the curses module. On a Windows
>>| platform, try the Console module written by Fredrik Lundh. The Console
>>| module provides cursor-addressable text output, plus full support for
>>| mouse and keyboard input, and is available from
>>| http://effbot.org/zone/console-index.htm.
>>
>>So you should try that instead.
>
> If going for curses, I'd try this instead:
> http://pdcurses.sourceforge.net/

Christoph Gohlke has an extension module based on PDCurses [1]. The
good news for Python 3 users is that it uses the [W]ide-character
console API, such as ReadConsoleInputW. Also, its _get_key_count [2]
function is designed to support the alt numpad event sequences that
the system creates for the input filepath when dragging a file into
the console. In my limited testing, dragging filepaths from Explorer
worked without a hitch using a random Latin-1 name "¨°¸ÀÈÐØàèðø" and a
Latin Extended-B name "ƠƨưƸǀLjǐǘǠǨǰǸ".

Unfortunately the Python 2.7 version is linked against the [A]NSI API,
which maps each Unicode character to either the closest matching
character in the console's codepage or "?". Moreover the PDCurses code
has a bug in narrow builds in that it returns the UnicodeChar from the
KEY_EVENT_RECORD [3] instead of the AsciiChar (the name is a
misnomer). In this case the high byte is junk. You can mask it out
using a bitwise & with 0xFF.

That said, IIRC, the OP wants to avoid using any frameworks such as
curses or a GUI toolkit.

[1]: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#curses
[2]: https://github.com/wmcbrine/PDCurses/blob/PDCurses_3_4/win32/pdckbd.c#L259
[3]: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms684166

Back to comp.lang.python | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

cannot open file with non-ASCII filename Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-12-14 16:24 +0000
  Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-12-14 13:34 -0500
    Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2015-12-14 11:07 -0800
  Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename eryk sun <eryksun@gmail.com> - 2015-12-14 12:45 -0600
  Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-12-14 19:51 +0100
    Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-12-14 22:11 +0000
      Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-12-14 23:41 +0100
        Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-12-15 01:07 +0100
        Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename eryk sun <eryksun@gmail.com> - 2015-12-14 21:20 -0600
  Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename eryk sun <eryksun@gmail.com> - 2015-12-14 17:55 -0600
  Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-12-15 01:13 +0100
    Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-12-15 08:26 +0000
      Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-12-15 15:09 +0100
      Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename eryk sun <eryksun@gmail.com> - 2015-12-15 09:34 -0600
        Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-12-15 17:04 +0000
          Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename eryk sun <eryksun@gmail.com> - 2015-12-16 21:39 -0600
          Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename smap <askme.first@thankyouverymuch.invalid> - 2015-12-18 21:15 +0000
  cannot open file with non-ASCII filename bearmingo <bearmingo@gmail.com> - 2015-12-17 21:12 -0800
    Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-12-18 01:37 -0500

csiph-web