Patch #1337756: fileinput now accepts Unicode filenames.
diff --git a/Lib/fileinput.py b/Lib/fileinput.py
index 27ccc3b..5c06627 100644
--- a/Lib/fileinput.py
+++ b/Lib/fileinput.py
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@
"""
def __init__(self, files=None, inplace=0, backup="", bufsize=0):
- if type(files) == type(''):
+ if isinstance(files, basestring):
files = (files,)
else:
if files is None:
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_fileinput.py b/Lib/test/test_fileinput.py
index 3a82c7c..285573c 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_fileinput.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_fileinput.py
@@ -157,3 +157,13 @@
verify(fi.lineno() == 6)
finally:
remove_tempfiles(t1, t2)
+
+if verbose:
+ print "15. Unicode filenames"
+try:
+ t1 = writeTmp(1, ["A\nB"])
+ fi = FileInput(files=unicode(t1, sys.getfilesystemencoding()))
+ lines = list(fi)
+ verify(lines == ["A\n", "B"])
+finally:
+ remove_tempfiles(t1)