On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 at 07:56, Nick Coghlan <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon., 20 Aug. 2018, 11:54 pm Paul Moore, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> My assumption is that the intent is that *all* strings, whether >> arguments or return values, must be Unicode. > > Handling bytes paths correctly cross-platform is a pain, so I think requiring > frontends to always pass in Unicode makes sense.
That's what I went for (and I've submitted a change to setuptools to fix their backend to follow that rule). I should probably also submit a PR to the PEP to clarify the intention :-) Paul -- Distutils-SIG mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mm3/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/mm3/archives/list/[email protected]/message/3M2AZZZKTQ7IPK2FPVQLZD4ND6HBPJIA/
