[Python-Dev] Bytes path support (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Aug 20 00:01:11 CEST 2014


Ben Hoyt wrote:

Does that mean that new APIs should explicitly not support bytes? ... Bytes paths are essentially broken on Windows.

But on Unix, paths are essentially bytes. What's the official policy for dealing with that?

-- Greg



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