On Thursday 11 November 2010 20:50:35 Martin v. Löwis wrote: > > Even if I hate the MBCS encoding, because it replaces undecodable > > characters by similar glyphs by default, I'm not certain that it is a > > good idea to drop the bytes API. Can it be a problem to port programs > > from Python2 to Python3? Do major Python2 programs/libraries rely on the > > bytes API? > > I don't actually know for a fact, but I expect that the answer is "no". > > The questions is: where do file names typically come from? My guess > is that they come from > a) hard-coded strings in the source code > b) command line arguments/environment variables
[...] > In case b), they will be Unicode strings in Python 3. But not neccessarily with unicode semantics if I get the discussions about the environment topic right. Additionally: d) Over a socket (like the HTTP protocol) -> Bytes. nd _______________________________________________ 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
