On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:13:47 am Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen <at> xemacs.org> writes:
...
> > So what you'll get here, AFAICS, is a new situation where many
> > Windows-centric programmers will produce code that's incapable of
> > dealing with non-Unicode input because they don't have to care
> > about the distinction between Unicode and bytes.
>
> I don't understand what you're saying. py3k filenames are all
> unicode, even on POSIX systems,
How is that possible on POSIX systems where the underlying file system
uses bytes for filenames?
If I write a piece of Python code:
filename = 'some path/some name'
I might call it a filename, I might think of it as a filename, but it
*isn't*, it's a string in a Python program. It isn't a filename until
it hits the file system, and in POSIX systems that makes it bytes.
--
Steven D'Aprano
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