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From: "R. Michael Weylandt" <michael.weylandt@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 09:52:47 +0100
Subject: Re: Changing filenames from Greeklish => Greek (subprocess complain)
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On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 9:10 AM, =CD=E9=EA=FC=EB=E1=EF=F2 =CA=EF=FD=F1=E1=F2=
 <nikos.gr33k@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/6/2013 10:42 =F0=EC, Michael Weylandt wrote:
>
>>> os.rename( filepath_bytes filepath.encode('utf-8')
>
>> Missing comma, which is, after all, just a matter of syntax so it can't
>> matter, right?
>
> I doubted that os.rename arguments must be comma seperated.

All function calls in Python require commas if you are putting in more
than one argument. [0]

> But ater reading the docs.
>
> s.rename(src, dst)
>
> Rename the file or directory src to dst. If dst is a directory, OSError w=
ill
> be raised. On Unix, if dst exists and is a file, it will be replaced
> silently if the user has permission. The operation may fail on some Unix
> flavors if src and dst are on different filesystems. If successful, the
> renaming will be an atomic operation (this is a POSIX requirement). On
> Windows, if dst already exists, OSError will be raised even if it is a fi=
le;
> there may be no way to implement an atomic rename when dst names an exist=
ing
> file.
>
> Availability: Unix, Windows.
>
> Indeed it has to be:
>
> os.rename( filepath_bytes, filepath.encode('utf-8')

Parenthesis missing here as well.

>
> 'mv source target' didn't require commas so i though it was safe to assum=
e
> that os.rename did not either.
>

That's for shell programming -- different language entirely.

The surrogate business is back to Unicode, which ain't my specialty so
I'll leave that to more able programmers.

MW

[0] You could pass multiple arguments by way of a tuple or dictionary
using */** but if you want arguments that aren't in the container
being passed, you're back to needing commas.