[Python-Dev] Support byte string API of Windows in Python3? (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Apr 20 22:19:34 CEST 2010

Amaury reopened my issue #8393 "subprocess: support undecodable current working directory on POSIX OS" because "It does not work on Windows" (bytes are rejected).

I see. I'd like to know whether that's an incompatible change. We shouldn't make incompatible changes in that matter. However, if you were not able to pass a bytes cwd on Windows before, it's fine that you still are not able to.

I'm puzzled how your patch could have possibly affected Windows, since it was only change _posixsubprocess.c. So I'm closing the report again.

Amaury also reopened #8394 "ctypes.dlopen() doesn't support surrogates", because ctypes.CDLL() rejects byte string.

Ok, I'll close this as well.

Regards, Martin

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