STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment: I asked on #python-dev about os.get_exec_path() result type. As expected, the answer was "It's a really bad idea".
So here is a new version of my patch. Summary of the patch version 4: - subprocess.Popen() and os._execvpe() support bytes program name - os.get_exec_path() now supports b'PATH' key and bytes value - add os.supports_bytes_environ flag: "True if the native OS type of the environment is bytes (eg. False on Windows)" Changes since the version 3: - document the new os.supports_bytes_environ flag - os.get_exec_path() result type is always str (decode bytes to str using sys.getfilesystemencoding() + surrogateescape) - path.supports_unicode_filenames is False on Windows 9x but Windows 9x native type is unicode and so fsencode() should not be defined on this OS: revert the fsencode() test (if not path.supports_unicode_filenames => if name != 'nt') ---------- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file17376/subprocess_bytes_program-4.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8513> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
