[Python-Dev] PEP 529: Change Windows filesystem encoding to UTF-8 (original) (raw)

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Fri Sep 2 04:58:28 EDT 2016


On 1 September 2016 at 23:31, Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org> wrote: [...]

As a result, POSIX-focused library authors prefer to use bytes to represent paths.

A minor point, but in my experience, a lot of POSIX-focused authors are happy to move to a better text/bytes separation, so I'd soften this to "some POSIX-focused library authors...".

Other than that minor point, this looks great - +1 from me. Paul



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