> How do you support cross-platform code using bytes filenames? > IIRC, it has already been argued that it was an important feature. Many > filesystem-related utilities might prefer to handle filenames in bytes > form.
It would be a policy decision. However, I think it is hear-say that filesystem-related utilities might prefer byte file names. On Windows, some files are inaccessible if you constrain yourself to byte filenames, so once people learn about this limitation, I expect them to switch to Unicode filenames on Windows - for the same reason they use byte filenames on Unix (i.e. to be able to access all files correctly). Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
