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

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Apr 28 05:50:11 CEST 2009

I don't understand what you're saying. py3k filenames are all unicode, even on POSIX systems,

How is that possible on POSIX systems where the underlying file system uses bytes for filenames? If I write a piece of Python code: filename = 'some path/some name' I might call it a filename, I might think of it as a filename, but it isn't, it's a string in a Python program. It isn't a filename until it hits the file system, and in POSIX systems that makes it bytes.

Python automatically encodes strings with the file system encoding before passing them to the POSIX API.

Regards, Martin

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