os.walk() strips polish characters

Question

So what I\'m trying to do is fix some id3tags of mp3 files. It all works, except for files with any kind of accent, because os.walk seems to strip them.

For example,

Answer 1

Did you define folder as a Unicode string? This has implications on how os.walk() matches its subdirectories, or better, the type of string that it returns.

>>> for a,b,c in os.walk("."):
...  print b
...  break
...
['DLLs', 'Doc', 'include', 'Lib', 'libs', 'tcl', 'Tools']
>>> for a,b,c in os.walk(u"."):
...  print b
...  break
...
[u'DLLs', u'Doc', u'include', u'Lib', u'libs', u'tcl', u'Tools']