On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 07:40:01 am Martin v. Löwis wrote: > >> On Windows, we might reject bytes filenames for all file > >> operations: open(), unlink(), os.path.join(), etc. (raise a > >> TypeError or UnicodeError) > > > > Since I've seen no objections to this yet: please no. If we offer a > > "lower-level" bytes filename API, it should work for all platforms. > > Unfortunately, it can't. You cannot represent all possible file names > in a byte string in Windows (just as you can't do so in a Unicode > string on Unix).
Sorry, maybe I'm just being thick here, but I don't understand how that is possible. On the physical disk, each Windows file name must be represented by a byte string, yes? So how is it possible that there are Windows files with names that can't be represented as a byte string? What have I missed? -- Steven _______________________________________________ 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
