Convert python filenames to unicode

Question

I am on python 2.6 for Windows.

I use os.walk to read a file tree. Files may have non-7-bit characters (German \"ae\" for example) in their filenames. These are enco

Answer 1

If you pass a Unicode string to os.walk(), you'll get Unicode results:

>>> list(os.walk(r'C:\example'))          # Passing an ASCII string
[('C:\\example', [], ['file.txt'])]
>>> 
>>> list(os.walk(ur'C:\example'))        # Passing a Unicode string
[(u'C:\\example', [], [u'file.txt'])]