On Tue, Aug 19, 2014, at 10:31, Ben Hoyt wrote: > > The official policy is that we want them [support for bytes paths in stdlib > > functions] to go away, but reality so far has not budged. We will continue > > to hold our breath though. :-) > > Does that mean that new APIs should explicitly not support bytes? I'm > thinking of os.scandir() (PEP 471), which I'm implementing at the > moment. I was originally going to make it support bytes so it was > compatible with listdir, but maybe that's a bad idea. Bytes paths are > essentially broken on Windows.
Bytes paths are "essential" on Unix, though, so I don't think we should create new low-level APIs that don't support bytes. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
