Add os.path.supports_unicode_filenames for all platforms,

sys.getwindowsversion() on Windows (new enahanced Tim-proof <wink>
version), and fix test_pep277.py in a few minor ways.
Including doc and NEWS entries.

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/output/test_pep277 b/Lib/test/output/test_pep277
index 717b707..43bd9e1 100644
--- a/Lib/test/output/test_pep277
+++ b/Lib/test/output/test_pep277
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 test_pep277
-u'F:\\src\\python-cvs\\Lib\\test\\@test\\Gr\xfc\xdf-\u66e8\u66e9\u66eb\\\xdf-\u66e8\u66e9\u66eb'
+u'\xdf-\u66e8\u66e9\u66eb'
 ['???', '???', '??????', '????????????', '????G\xdf', 'Ge??-sa?', 'Gr\xfc\xdf-Gott', 'abc', 'ascii']
 [u'Gr\xfc\xdf-Gott', u'abc', u'ascii', 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']
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pep277.py b/Lib/test/test_pep277.py
index 480fe00..9c4aa05 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_pep277.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pep277.py
@@ -2,9 +2,7 @@
 # open, os.open, os.stat. os.listdir, os.rename, os.remove, os.mkdir, os.chdir, os.rmdir
 import os, unittest
 from test.test_support import TESTFN, TestSkipped, TestFailed, run_suite
-try:
-    from nt import _getfullpathname
-except ImportError:
+if not os.path.supports_unicode_filenames:
     raise TestSkipped, "test works only on NT+"
 
 filenames = [
@@ -24,7 +22,8 @@ def deltree(dirname):
     # Don't hide legitimate errors:  if one of these suckers exists, it's
     # an error if we can't remove it.
     if os.path.exists(dirname):
-        for fname in os.listdir(dirname):
+        # must pass unicode to os.listdir() so we get back unicode results.
+        for fname in os.listdir(unicode(dirname)):
             os.unlink(os.path.join(dirname, fname))
         os.rmdir(dirname)
 
@@ -99,7 +98,7 @@ class UnicodeFileTests(unittest.TestCase):
         f = open(filename, 'w')
         f.write((filename + '\n').encode("utf-8"))
         f.close()
-        print repr(_getfullpathname(filename))
+        print repr(filename)
         os.remove(filename)
         os.chdir(oldwd)
         os.rmdir(dirname)