Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: I suppose the following patch should fix the issue. Could anybody please test it on Windows? ---------- assignee: docs@python -> serhiy.storchaka stage: needs patch -> patch review Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file45009/direntry_bytes_path.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27998> _______________________________________