Use Python's standard filesystem encoding for command-line arguments#4507
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Use Python's standard filesystem encoding for command-line arguments#4507
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The idea in this PR is to converge on Python's `fsdecode` and `fsencode` for argument manipulation. This seems to match up with the Python standard library's assumptions: namely, on Windows, we use `fsdecode` to get back to Unicode strings: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/54bbb5e3363ef3634f1fd7521ba3f3c42c81a331/Lib/subprocess.py#L561 So let's start by dropping this utility and going straight for `fsdecode` here to match.
This can apparently never be `None`, as of Python 3.2.
On Windows, converting command-line arguments (hopefully!!!) only needs to deal with valid strings from the OS. So it is not really relevant to test with non-UTF-8, non-surrogate bytes.
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Incredibly, this actually seems to have addressed the |
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OK, this does seem to work—at least for our tests—and I haven't thought of a good reason it should be wrong over the last couple of days. So I'm going to merge this one, with considerable trepidation, and we'll see if anything breaks in the wild! |
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This is very much an experiment, but it's an attempt to address persistent issues with invoking command-line tools with non-ASCII arguments. For example, the
replaygainplugin wants to invokeffmpegon filenames that might contain special characters. Doing this in a cross-platform way has always been extremely fraught—it's hard to get it to work right simultaneously on Unix (where filenames are plain bytes that need not obey any specific encoding) and on Windows (where filenames are weird, but they are closer to being Unicode strings).The experiment here is to centralize on the Python standard library's implicit recommendations for this:
fsencodeandfsdecode. These use surrogate escaping (at least in most configurations??), so they probably shouldn't crash. Thesubprocessmodule also apparently assumes this is the right encoding for CLI argument stuff, at least on Windows:https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/54bbb5e3363ef3634f1fd7521ba3f3c42c81a331/Lib/subprocess.py#L561
…so hopefully using this encoding everywhere should make things better on Windows and no worse on Unix.
The hope is to address some CI failures that come from the
replaygaininvokingffmpegon Windows.