From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 11:21:29 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: #2856: document 2.x os.listdir() behavior for undecodable filenames.
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#2856: document 2.x os.listdir() behavior for undecodable filenames.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst
index 061f1ce408..1109a1d097 100644
--- a/Doc/library/os.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/os.rst
@@ -930,7 +930,8 @@ Files and Directories
 
    .. versionchanged:: 2.3
       On Windows NT/2k/XP and Unix, if *path* is a Unicode object, the result will be
-      a list of Unicode objects.
+      a list of Unicode objects. Undecodable filenames will still be returned as
+      string objects.
 
 
 .. function:: lstat(path)