Python opening a hebrew path to file and using glob with hebrew

Question

I have a root dir in hebrew and a file name in hebrew. I wish to do the following:

fullPath = os.path.join(dirName, fileName)
f = file(fullPath)

and also I wish to find all the excel files that starts with a hebrew prefix:

excelPath= os.path.join(dirName, "%s*.xlsx" % hebrewPrefix)
for fn in glob.glob(excelPath):
            print fn

How can I achieve that?

Answer 1

It works as expected on Japanese (assuming I have the folder こんにちは containing the file 世界.xls ):

Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Dec 26 2010, 22:31:48) 
[GCC 4.4.5] on linux2
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>>> import os
>>> fullpath = os.path.join("こんにちは","世界.*")
>>> import glob
>>> for fn in glob.glob(fullpath):
...     print fn
... 
こんにちは/世界.xls

You shouldn't have any difficulties in Hebrew. The only problem would be if your filesystem does not support UTF-8 for file names...