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@@ -2,6 +2,23 @@ What's New in Python 2.2a0? =========================== Core +- Some operating systems now support the concept of a default Unicode + encoding for file system operations. Notably, Windows supports 'mbcs' + as the default. The Macintosh will also adopt this concept in the medium + term, altough the default encoding for that platform will be other than + 'mbcs'. + On operating system that support non-ascii filenames, it is common for + functions that return filenames (such as os.listdir()) to return Python + string objects pre-encoded using the default file system encoding for + the platform. As this encoding is likely to be different from Python's + default encoding, converting this name to a Unicode object before passing + it back to the Operating System would result in a Unicode error, as Python + would attempt to use it's default encoding (generally ASCII) rather + than the default encoding for the file system. + In general, this change simply removes surprises when working with + Unicode and the file system, making these operations work as + you expect, increasing the transparency of Unicode objects in this context. + See [????] for more details, including examples. - Float (and complex) literals in source code were evaluated to full precision only when running from a .py file; the same code loaded from a |