Hey,

i get a QString which represents a directory from a QLineEdit. Now i want to check wether a certain file exists in this directory. But if i try this with os.path.exists and os.path.join and get in trouble when german umlauts occur in the directory path:

#the direcory coming from the user input in the QLineEdit
#i take this QString to the local 8-Bit encoding and then make
#a string from it
target_dir = str(lineEdit.text().toLocal8Bit())
#the file name that should be checked for
file_name = 'some-name.txt'
#this fails with a UnicodeDecodeError when a umlaut occurs in target_dir
os.path.exists(os.path.join(target_dir, file_name))

How would you check if the file exists, when you might encounter german umlauts?