[Python-3000] Unicode strings, identifiers, and import (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri May 18 04:35:23 CEST 2007


On 5/17/07, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

James Y Knight wrote: > The really tricky thing is that on unix systems, if you want to be > able to access all the files on the disk, you have to use the byte- > string API ... But on windows ... you CANNOT use the byte-string api

How are we going to cope with this in Py3k with unicode-only strings?

Not any different that we do now -- you can already pass both types of strings to a Windows API and we convert it to the kind of string the API needs.

-- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)



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