Thomas Breuel <tmbdev <at> gmail.com> writes: > > And, in fact, Windows Vista happily creates files with malformed UTF-16 encodings, and os.listdir() happily returns them.
The PEP won't change that, so what's the problem exactly? > Under your proposal, passing the output from a correctly implemented file system or other OS function to a correctly written library using unicode strings may crash Python. That's a very dishonest formulation. It cannot crash Python; it can only crash hypothetical third-party programs or libraries with deficient error checking and unreasonable assumptions about input data. (and, of course, you haven't even proven those programs or libraries exist) Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
