Re: [Python-Dev] Patch for an initial support of bytes filename in Python3

Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com> wrote:

- listdir(unicode) -> only unicode, *skip* invalid filenames (as asked by Guido)

Is there an option listdir(bytes) which will return *all* filenames (as byte sequences)? Otherwise, this seems troubling to me; *something* should be returned for filenames which can't be represented, even if it's only None. Bill