> On Mar 8, 2015, at 3:26 AM, Glyph <gl...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote: > > >> On Mar 8, 2015, at 3:03 AM, Adi Roiban <a...@roiban.ro >> <mailto:a...@roiban.ro>> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I am trying to help porting Twisted on Py3 and for me the fact that >> FilePath requires all paths to be bytes is a constant pain. >> >> To reduce the Unicode pain when working with string my principle is to >> do all internal operations in Unicode and then convert to bytes only >> at input and output. >> >> Right now I am trying to port t.p.moduled and when using the current >> implementation of FilePath I have to constantly encode/decode path. I >> would prefer not to consider the FilePath an input/output level. >> >> Does anyone find this useful and plan to use FilePath with bytes in >> another Python3 project? >> >> What do you say if we will also have an UnicodeFilePath class which >> only accept Unicode as path input and only outputs Unicode? >> >> It can start with simple path traversal/directory creation/file >> creation just to have t.p.moduled (and trial) ported. > > This approach to unicode support in FilePath is wrong, but when I went to go > looking, I realized that there is no comprehensive ticket that outlines how > FilePath should support unicode, so I have nothing to refer you to for how to > do it correctly. > > I more or less figured this out a long time ago and I have been talking about > it for years, and the lack of a write-up is a terrible oversight. I'm sorry > about that. > > I'm going to go file a ticket now with a specification for this, and I'll > post a link as soon as it's done.
Now written in ticket form: https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/7805 <https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/7805> In short, "FilePath should return the type you give its constructor from all of its public methods, and use an internal representation appropriate to the platform it's running on." -glyph
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