2009/4/22 Dirkjan Ochtman <dirk...@ochtman.nl>: > On 22/04/2009 14:20, gl...@divmod.com wrote: >> >> -1. On UNIX, character data is not sufficient to represent paths. We >> must, must, must continue to have a simple bytes interface to these >> APIs. Covering it up in layers of obscure encoding hacks will not make >> the problem go away, it will just make it harder to understand. > > As a hg developer, I have to concur. Keeping bytes-based APIs intact would > make porting hg to py3k much, much easier. You may be able to imagine that > dealing with paths correctly cross-platform on a VCS is a major PITA, and > py3k is currently not helping the situation.
You're concerns are valid, but I don't see anything in the PEP about removing the bytes APIs. -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ 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
