On 2/8/2016 12:02, Brett Cannon wrote:
If Unicode string don't work in Python 2 then what is Python 2/3 to do as a cross-platform solution if we completely remove bytes support in Python 3? Wouldn't that mean there is no common type between Python 2 & 3 that one can use which will work with the os module except native strings (which are difficult to get right)?
The only solution then would be to do `if not PY3: arg = arg.encode(...);; os.SOMEFUNC(arg)`, pardon my psudocode. Its annoying, but at least its not a language syntax change which means it isn't intractable, just an annoying roadblock. If I had my druthers it would be put off until after 2.x is well and truly dead.
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