13 May
2016
13 May
'16
12:38 p.m.
On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 9:33 AM, Larry Hastings
On 05/13/2016 06:21 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
Really, if you want bytes, you should use os.fsencode(); if you want strings, use os.fsencode(); if you want to be polymorphic, use os.fspath() and check the type it returns.
Am I severely misunderstanding the API, or did you mean "if you want strings, use os.fsdecode()" here?
encode, decode -- poh-tay-toe, poh-tah-toe. :-) Another slip of the fingers, I did mean os.fsdecode() when you want strings. encode, schmencode... -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)