On Tuesday, August 19, 2014, Stephen J. Turnbull <step...@xemacs.org> wrote:
> Greg Ewing writes: > > Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > > > > This case can be handled now using the surrogateescape > > > error handler, > > > > So maybe the way to make bytes paths go away is to always > > use surrogateescape for paths on unix? > > Backward compatibility rules that out, I think. I certainly would > recommend that for new code, but even for new code there are many > users who vehemently object to using Unicode as an intermediate > representation of things they think of as binary blobs. Not worth the > hassle to even seriously propose removing those APIs IMO. But maybe we don't have to add new ones? --Guido -- --Guido van Rossum (on iPad)
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