Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Nick Coghlan schrieb: > >>So this is taking something that *already works properly on POSIX >>systems* and making it work on Windows as well. > > I doubt it does without side effects. For example, an application that > would go through sys.path, and encode everything with > sys.getfilesystemencoding() currently works, but will break if the patch > is applied and non-mbcs strings are put on sys.path.
Huh? It won't break on any path for which it is not already broken. You seem to be saying "Paths with non-mbcs strings shouldn't work on Windows, because they haven't worked in the past." -- David Hopwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com