[Python-Dev] Windows: Remove support of bytes filenames in the os module? (original) (raw)
Alexander Walters tritium-list at sdamon.com
Mon Feb 8 12:10:50 EST 2016
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On 2/8/2016 12:02, Brett Cannon wrote:
If Unicode string don't work in Python 2 then what is Python 2/3 to do as a cross-platform solution if we completely remove bytes support in Python 3? Wouldn't that mean there is no common type between Python 2 & 3 that one can use which will work with the os module except native strings (which are difficult to get right)?
The only solution then would be to do if not PY3: arg = arg.encode(...);; os.SOMEFUNC(arg), pardon my psudocode. Its annoying,
but at least its not a language syntax change which means it isn't
intractable, just an annoying roadblock. If I had my druthers it would
be put off until after 2.x is well and truly dead.
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