On Tue, Apr 12, 2016, at 12:40, Chris Barker wrote: > Ah -- there's the fatal flaw -- even Windows needs bytes at the lowest > level,
Only in the sense that literally everything's bytes at the lowest level. But the bytes Windows needs are not in an ASCII-compatible encoding so it's not reasonable to talk about them in the same way as every other kind of bytes filename. > but the decision was already made there to use str as the the > lingua-franca -- i.e. the user NEVER sees a path as a bytestring on > Windows? I guess that's decided then. str is the exchange format. _______________________________________________ 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
