[Python-Dev] a suggestion ... Re: PEP 383 (again) (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Apr 30 12:32:47 CEST 2009


OK, so what's wrong with os.listdir() and similar functions returning a unicode string for strings that correctly encode/decode, and with byte strings for strings that are not valid unicode?

See http://bugs.python.org/issue3187 in particular msg71655

Regards, Martin



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