From 6459365f50e83b680abc7ee72d6c2d5017964b6b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robey Pointer Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 20:03:43 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] [project @ robey@lag.net-20060220040343-f13904d9c97035e3] explain why paths aren't, and can't be, unicode strings when passed to SFTPServerInterface --- paramiko/sftp_si.py | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/paramiko/sftp_si.py b/paramiko/sftp_si.py index 8095d23..bcda61c 100644 --- a/paramiko/sftp_si.py +++ b/paramiko/sftp_si.py @@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ class SFTPServerInterface (object): SFTP sessions). However, raising an exception will usually cause the SFTP session to abruptly end, so you will usually want to catch exceptions and return an appropriate error code. + + All paths are in string form instead of unicode because not all SFTP + clients & servers obey the requirement that paths be encoded in UTF-8. """ def __init__ (self, server, *largs, **kwargs):