Yuval Greenfield <ubershme...@gmail.com> added the comment: I use python a lot with Hebrew and many websites have internationalization which may involve unicode paths. I agree that saying "unicode paths are rare" is inaccurate.
If the current situation isn't fixed though - you just can't use the resulting path for almost anything. Do you have a use case Ishimoto? Windows XP and up implement paths as unicode, that means that a bytes api doesn't even make sense unless python does some encoding and decoding for you. E.g. python can use the unicode API's internally and return utf-8 encoded bytes. But you couldn't use these paths outside of python. The fact is you shouldn't be doing os.path.abspath(b'.') in windows to begin with. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13247> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
