Re: [Python-Dev] Pathlib enhancements - improve fsdecode and fsencode

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Please please please, junk both "filter out bytes" proposals. If you were referring to some of the fspath versions, I think we will need a bytes-rejecting version, for reasons explained in [1-2]. Of course not

[Python-Dev] Pathlib enhancements - improve fsdecode and fsencode

Please please please, junk both "filter out bytes" proposals. Since they involve an exception, they impose an unnecessary "try" on all text applications that fear death on bytes returns. May as well just wrap all objects with __fspath__ in fsdecode, and all is happy. Counterproposal: make