On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Glenn Linderman <v+pyt...@g.nevcal.com> wrote: > Oh clearly it is a hack. The right solution of a Path type (and friends) > was discarded in earlier discussion, because it would impact too much > existing code. The use of bytes would be annoying in the context of py3, > where things that you want to display are in str (Unicode). So there is no > solution that allows the use of str, and the robustness of bytes, and is > 100% compatible with existing practice. Hence the desire is to find a hack > that is "good enough". At least, that is my understanding and synopsis.
What about keeping the bytes interface (utf-8 encoded Unicode on Windows) and adding a Path type (and friends) interface that mirrors it? > (Sorry Simon, but it is still the same thread, anyway.) Python discussions do seem to womble through a rather large set of mailing lists and news groups. :) Schiavo Simon _______________________________________________ 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
