On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That said, I don't think this is something we (or, more to the point, > Guido) need to make a decision on right now - for 3.0, having > bytes-level APIs that can see everything, and Unicode APIs that ignore > badly encoded filenames is worth trying. If it proves inadequate, then > we can revisit the idea of some kind of implicit escaping mechanism in > the Unicode APIs for 3.1 when there is more time for a proper PEP.
Right. Given that most syscalls already support both bytes and (unicode) str, the simplest thing to do is to take this a bit further, along the lines of Victor's patches, which I'm reviewing in Rietveld right now: http://codereview.appspot.com/3055 -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
