Sept. 29, 2008
9:21 a.m.
* Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org> [2008-09-28 13:34:50 -0700]:
since any given path (not just fs) can have its own encoding it makes the most sense to me to let the OS deal with the errors and not try to enforce bytes vs string encoding type at the python lib. level.
But the underlying APIs differ; Linux uses bytestrings for filenames, whereas I believe the native Windows APIs take "wide" (ie. Unicode) strings. -- mithrandi, i Ainil en-Balandor, a faer Ambar