> > However, it is "mission creep": Martin didn't volunteer to > write a PEP for it, he volunteered to write a PEP to solve the > "roundtrip the value of os.listdir()" problem. And he succeeded, up > to some minor details.
Yes, it solves that problem. But that doesn't come without cost. Most importantly, now Python writes illegal UTF-8 strings even if the user chose a UTF-8 encoding. That means that illegal UTF-8 encodings can propagate anywhere, without warning. Furthermore, I don't believe that PEP 383 works consistently on Windows, and it causes programs to behave differently in unintuitive ways on Windows and Linux. I'll suggest an alternative in a separate message. Tom
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