[Python-Dev] Windows: Remove support of bytes filenames in the os module? (original) (raw)

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Wed Feb 10 02:08:33 EST 2016

Le mercredi 10 février 2016, Steve Dower <python at stevedower.id.au> a écrit :

I really don't like the idea of not being able to use bytes in cross platform code. Unless it's become feasible to use Unicode for lossless filenames on Linux - last I heard it wasn't.

The point of my email is that even on Python 3, users kept bad habits because of Python 2. Yes, you can use Unicode filenames on all platforms on Python 3 since 2009 thanks to the following PEP: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0383/

In my first email, I mentioned a bug report of an user still using bytes filenames on Windows with Python 3. It is on the Blender project which only supports Python 3. Or maybe I missed something huge which really force Blender to use bytes??? But if a few functions still require bytes, I would suggest to use instead os.fsencode() for them. It's more much convenient to handle filenames as Unicode on Python 3.

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