Re: [Python-ideas] Working with Path objects: p-strings?

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016, at 07:21, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

Unless I'm missing something, pathlib doesn't support bytes filenames. So the question doesn't come up. Any path you can use with pathlib is a valid Python string, because you can only create paths using Python strings.

So if I have a Linux file b'\xD8\x01', I can't create a path object to work with it.

Any reason you can't use surrogateescape and "\uDCD8\x01"?