-*- coding: utf8 -*-

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*-coding: utf8 -*-
import sys,os
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8')

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'setdefaultencoding'

Python 2.7.1+

Python 3.2

LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=ru_RU:en
LC_CTYPE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

C:\Documents and Settings\username>python -S
Python 2.6 (r26:66721, Oct  2 2008, 11:35:03) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win
32
>>> import sys
>>> sys.setdefaultencoding()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: setdefaultencoding() takes exactly 1 argument (0 given)
>>> sys.setdefaultencoding(u"UTF-8")
>>>

#! /usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import os,tarfile,time,gzip,stat,sys

# vars
files_list = list()

def pack(_dest, _source):
    pack_name = _dest + "" + str(time.strftime("%d.%m.%Y", time.localtime())) + ".tar.bz2"
    _pack = tarfile.open(pack_name, 'w|bz2')
    for name in _source:
        _pack.add(name)
    _pack.close()
    
def get_info(file_name):
    time_format = "%d-%m-%Y"
    file_stat = os.stat(file_name)
    mod_time = time.strftime(time_format, time.localtime(file_stat[stat.ST_MTIME]))
    access_time = time.strftime(time_format, time.localtime(file_stat[stat.ST_ATIME]))
    return file_name, mod_time, access_time

def check_extention(file_name):
    _stat = get_info(file_name)
    try:
        extention = _stat[0].split(".")[1]
        if _stat[0].split(".")[1] in ('doc', 'docx', 'xls', 'xlsx'):
            return 1
        else:
            return 0
    except IndexError as err:
        print(err)

def get_dirs(_path = "/backup/users/"):
    dirs_list = list()
    input_path = os.listdir(_path)
    try:
        for cur_dir in input_path:
            dirs_list.append(cur_dir + "/")
    except OSError as err:
        print err
    return dirs_list

def prnt(_list):
    for name in _list:
        print name
   
def main():
    try:
        for root,dirs,files in os.walk("/backup/users/Науменко Аня"):
            for name in files:
                if (check_extention(os.path.join(root,name))):
                    #tmp = str(os.path.join(root,name)).encode("utf8")
                    tmp = os.path.join(root,name)
                    files_list.append(os.path.join(tmp))

    except OSError as err:
        print err
    pack("/backup/arch/", files_list)
main()
#prnt(files_list)

In [15]: sys.getdefaultencoding()
Out[15]: 'ascii'

>>> s = u'абвг'
>>> print s
абвг
>>> s.encode('utf-8')
'\xd0\xb0\xd0\xb1\xd0\xb2\xd0\xb3'
>>>

#! /usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import os,tarfile,time,gzip,stat,sys

# vars
files_list = []

def pack(_dest, _source):
    pack_name = "{0}{1}.tar.bz2".format(_dest, str(time.strftime("%d.%m.%Y", time.localtime())))
    packed = tarfile.open(pack_name, 'w|bz2', format=tarfile.PAX_FORMAT)
    for name in _source:
        packed.add(name)
    packed.close()
    
def get_info(file_name):
    time_format = "%d-%m-%Y"
    file_stat = os.stat(file_name)
    mod_time = time.strftime(time_format, time.localtime(file_stat[stat.ST_MTIME]))
    access_time = time.strftime(time_format, time.localtime(file_stat[stat.ST_ATIME]))
    return file_name, mod_time, access_time

def check_extention(file_name):
    need_extensions = ('.doc', '.docx', '.xls', '.xlsx')
    root, file_extension = os.path.splitext(file_name)
    
    return file_extension in need_extensions

def get_dirs(_path = "/backup/users/"):
    dirs_list = []
    try:
        full_list = os.listdir(_path)
        for cur_dir in full_list:
            if os.path.isdir(cur_dir):
                dirs_list.append(cur_dir)
    except OSError as err:
        print err
    return dirs_list

def prnt(_list):
    for name in _list:
        print name
   
def main():
    try:
        for root, dirs, files in os.walk(u"D:\TEST\BACKUP\Науменко Аня"):
            for name in files:
                if check_extention(os.path.join(root,name)):
                    tmp = os.path.join(root,name)
                    files_list.append(os.path.join(tmp))

    except OSError as err:
        print err
    pack(u"D:\TEST\BACKUP", files_list)
main()
#prnt(files_list)