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

R. David Murray rdmurray at bitdance.com
Tue Aug 26 04:41:31 CEST 2014


On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 11:25:19 +0900, "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:

R. David Murray writes:

> Also, as has been discussed in this thread previously, any program that > deals with filenames is dealing with human readable languages, even > if posix itself treats the filenames as bytes. That's a bit extreme. I can name two interesting applications offhand: git's object database and the Coda filesystem's containers.

As soon as I hit send I realized there were a few counter examples :) So, replace "any" with "most".

--David



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