From e466217ab954c5a53fc2e0b78876385362120900 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 09:51:27 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Patch #1337756: fileinput now accepts Unicode filenames.

---
 Lib/fileinput.py           |  2 +-
 Lib/test/test_fileinput.py | 10 ++++++++++
 Misc/NEWS                  |  2 ++
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/fileinput.py b/Lib/fileinput.py
index 27ccc3bfedf..5c06627238c 100644
--- a/Lib/fileinput.py
+++ b/Lib/fileinput.py
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ class FileInput:
     """
 
     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 3a82c7c71f3..285573cc8ec 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_fileinput.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_fileinput.py
@@ -157,3 +157,13 @@ try:
     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)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 9f92bf4595c..47bb57aad7b 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -366,6 +366,8 @@ Extension Modules
 Library
 -------
 
+- Patch #1337756: fileinput now accepts Unicode filenames.
+
 - Patch #1373643: The chunk module can now read chunks larger than
   two gigabytes.