[issue7560] Various filename-taking posix methods don't like bytes / buffer objects.

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[issue7560] Various filename-taking posix methods don't like bytes / buffer objects.

Sebastian Hagen added the comment: And further testing reveals that all of this has in fact already been fixed in trunk. I assumed it hadn't been, because the code for at least some of the relevant functions in Modules/_posixmodule.c is the same as in 3.1.1; I didn't know that the samentics for

[issue7560] Various filename-taking posix methods don't like bytes / buffer objects.

Sebastian Hagen added the comment: I'm taking that patch back. More testing would have been in order before posting; sorry for that, will repost once I've got the obvious problems worked out. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue7560] Various filename-taking posix methods don't like bytes / buffer objects.

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[issue7560] Various filename-taking posix methods don't like bytes / buffer objects.

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[issue7560] Various filename-taking posix methods don't like bytes / buffer objects.

New submission from Sebastian Hagen : Most of the functions in Python's stdlib that take filename parameters allow for those parameters to be buffer (such as bytes, bytearray, memoryview) objects. This is useful for various reasons, among them that on Posix-likes, file- and pathnames ultimately *