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

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:05 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:

Actually on Windows the syscalls use the encoding that Microsoft uses -- when using bytes we use the Windows bytes API and when using str we use the Windows wide API. That's the most platform-compatible approach.

Woot. As long as the Python file API is consistent across the two platforms, I'm happy. :)