Issue #8514: Add os.fsencode() function (Unix only): encode a string to bytes
for use in the file system, environment variables or the command line.
diff --git a/Lib/os.py b/Lib/os.py
index 3e2ee0d..13ab18c 100644
--- a/Lib/os.py
+++ b/Lib/os.py
@@ -504,6 +504,17 @@
return environb.get(key, default)
__all__.append("getenvb")
+if name != 'nt':
+ def fsencode(value):
+ """Encode value for use in the file system, environment variables
+ or the command line."""
+ if isinstance(value, bytes):
+ return value
+ elif isinstance(value, str):
+ return value.encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding(), 'surrogateescape')
+ else:
+ raise TypeError("expect bytes or str, not %s" % type(value).__name__)
+
def _exists(name):
return name in globals()