[Python-Dev] File system path PEP, part 2 (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri May 13 13:38:35 EDT 2016


On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 9:33 AM, Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:

On 05/13/2016 06:21 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: Really, if you want bytes, you should use os.fsencode(); if you want strings, use os.fsencode(); if you want to be polymorphic, use os.fspath() and check the type it returns. Am I severely misunderstanding the API, or did you mean "if you want strings, use os.fsdecode()" here?

encode, decode -- poh-tay-toe, poh-tah-toe. :-)

Another slip of the fingers, I did mean os.fsdecode() when you want strings.

encode, schmencode...

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