Random832 writes: > And what such incompatibilities exist between bytes and str for the > purpose of representing file paths?
A plethora of encodings. > At the end of the day, there's exactly one answer to "what file on > disk this represents (or would represent if it existed)". Nope. Suppose those bytes were read from a file or a socket? It's dangerous to assume that encoding matches the file system's. _______________________________________________ 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
