[Python-Dev] Pathlib enhancements - acceptable inputs and outputs for fspath and os.fspath() (original) (raw)

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Mon Apr 11 20:40:50 EDT 2016


On 04/11/2016 01:42 PM, Victor Stinner wrote:

With the PEP 383, a bytes filename can be stored as str using the surrogateescape error handler. So DirEntry can convert a bytes path to str using os.fsdecode().

Does this mean that os.fsdecode() is simply a wrapper that sets the errors to the surrogateescape handler?

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Ethan



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