Victor Stinner wrote: > Le jeudi 22 avril 2010 00:21:02, vous avez écrit : >> Victor Stinner wrote: >>> I will be very sad if someone ask me to keep bytearray filename support >>> in 3.2 because I opened a lot of issues about surrogates and I would make >>> my work more diffcult :-( >> I don't have an opinion one way or the other regarding bytearray, but >> even if you deprecated it rather than dropping it, couldn't you just add >> the surrogate support for the Unicode path and leave the bytecode path >> with the legacy behaviour? > > Yes, we can do everything. But does it really have a sense? No Python > function > using filenames return a bytearray object. Example: os.listdir() and > os.walk() > result type is bytes or str.
Oh, never mind then, I misunderstood the question ('bytearray' flipped to 'bytes' in my brain). I don't see the point in allowing a mutable argument either. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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