[Python-Dev] Removal of Win32 ANSI API (original) (raw)

Hirokazu Yamamoto ocean-city at m2.ccsnet.ne.jp
Fri Nov 26 17:33:50 CET 2010

On 2010/11/14 9:06, Victor Stinner wrote:

Yes, but how do you check if the input argument is a bytes or a str object with your PyArgParse converter? You should use "O" format and manually convert it to unicode, and then convert the result back to bytes (if the input was bytes). It don't think that it makes the code shorter.

The code is currently working. The question is if we have to drop the ANSI API now, later or never. It looks like the decision moves to "later" (deprecate in 3.2, remove in 3.3). I still think that drop now doesn't really hurt. Victor

Humble thoughts... Is it possible a conversion from bytes (ANSI) to unicode fails on windows? If not, is it allowed to convert to unicode with PyUnicode_FSDecoder if function doesn't return str? For example, os.stat() takes str as arguments but doesn't return str.

I noticed win_readlink() in Modules/posixmodule.c already unicode

only. Maybe not so much problem? ;-)

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