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| author | Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com> | 2010-05-08 11:10:09 (GMT) |
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| committer | Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com> | 2010-05-08 11:10:09 (GMT) |
| commit | 449c466e7d17292c46c08ef9a458fbdc5ddb7987 (patch) | |
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| parent | 4cda46ab9167ab6c46e1cbb6caea6fbb021605ac (diff) | |
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Issue #8514: Add os.fsencode() function (Unix only): encode a string to bytes
for use in the file system, environment variables or the command line.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst index 577c600..1d4b1e1 100644 --- a/Doc/library/os.rst +++ b/Doc/library/os.rst @@ -155,6 +155,17 @@ process and user. These functions are described in :ref:`os-file-dir`. +.. function:: fsencode(value) + + Encode *value* to bytes for use in the file system, environment variables or + the command line. Uses :func:`sys.getfilesystemencoding` and + ``'surrogateescape'`` error handler for strings and returns bytes unchanged. + + Availability: Unix. + + .. versionadded:: 3.2 + + .. function:: get_exec_path(env=None) Returns the list of directories that will be searched for a named |