<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body><div><div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Could we perhaps redefine bytes paths on Windows as utf8 and use Unicode everywhere internally?<br><br>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.<br><br>Top-posted from my Windows Phone</div></div><div dir="ltr"><hr><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">From: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:victor.stinner@gmail.com">Victor Stinner</a></span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Sent: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">2/9/2016 5:05</span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">To: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:p.f.moore@gmail.com">Paul Moore</a></span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Cc: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:Python-Dev@python.org">Python Dev</a></span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Re: [Python-Dev] Windows: Remove support of bytes filenames in theos module?</span><br><br></div>2016-02-08 19:26 GMT+01:00 Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com>:<br>> On 8 February 2016 at 14:32, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com> wrote:<br>>> Since 3.3, functions of the os module started to emit<br>>> DeprecationWarning when called with bytes filenames.<br>><br>> Everywhere? Or just on Windows? I can't tell from your email and I<br>> don't have a Unix system to hand to check.<br><br>I propose to only drop support for bytes filenames on Windows.<br><br>Victor<br>_______________________________________________<br>Python-Dev mailing list<br>Python-Dev@python.org<br>https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev<br>Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/steve.dower%40python.org<br></body></html>