Python not able to open file with non-english characters in path

Question

I have a file with the following path : D:/bar/クレイジー・ヒッツ！/foo.abc

I am parsing the path from a XML file and storing it in a variable called path in the

Answer 1

Provide the filename as a unicode string to the open call.

How do you produce the filename?

if provided as a constant by you

Add a line near the beginning of your script:

# -*- coding: utf8 -*-

Then, in a UTF-8 capable editor, set path to the unicode filename:

path = u"D:/bar/クレイジー・ヒッツ！/foo.abc"

read from a list of directory contents

Retrieve the contents of the directory using a unicode dirspec:

dir_files= os.listdir(u'.')

read from a text file

Open the filename-containing-file using codecs.open to read unicode data from it. You need to specify the encoding of the file (because you know what is the “default windows charset” for non-Unicode applications on your computer).

in any case

Do a:

path= path.decode("utf8")

before opening the file; substitute the correct encoding if not "utf8".