On Fri, Apr 24, 2009, Paul Moore wrote: > 2009/4/24 Simon Cross <hodgestar+python...@gmail.com>: >> >> Humour aside :), the expectation that filenames are Unicode data >> simply doesn't agree with the reality of POSIX file systems. > > However, it *does* agree with the reality of Windows file systems. The > fundamental problem here is that there is a strong OS disparity - for > Windows, the OS uses Unicode, for POSIX, the OS uses bytes. > Traditionally, Python has been happy to expose OS differences, and let > application code address platform portability issues. But this is such > a fundamental area, that doing so is problematic - it could easily > result in *more* code being OS-specific (in subtle, > only-affects-non-Latin-alphabet-using-users manners) rather than less.
The part that I haven't seen clearly addressed so far is what happens when disks get mounted across OSes (e.g. NFS). While I agree that there should be a layer on top that can handle "most" situations, it also seems clear that the raw layer needs to be readily accessible. -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." --Red Adair _______________________________________________ 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
