[Python-Dev] PEP 383: Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces (original) (raw)

R. David Murray rdmurray at bitdance.com
Wed Apr 22 21:28:32 CEST 2009

On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 at 21:21, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:

Yeah, but IIRC a complete set of bytes APIs doesn't exist yet in py3k. Define complete. I'm not aware of any interfaces wrt. file IO that are lacking, so which ones were you thinking of? Python doesn't currently provide a way to access environment variables and command line arguments as bytes. With the PEP, such a way would actually become available for applications that desire it.

Those are the two that I'm thinking of.

I think I understand your proposal better now after your example of implementing listdir(bytes). Putting it in the PEP would probably be a good idea. I personally don't have enough practice in actually working with various encodings (or any understanding of unicode escapes) to comment further.

--David

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