Aug. 18, 2016
5:39 p.m.
On 18Aug2016 1036, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 8/18/2016 11:25 AM, Steve Dower wrote:
In this case, we would announce in 3.6 that using bytes as paths on Windows is no longer deprecated,
My understanding is the the first 2 fixes refine the deprecation rather than reversing it. And #3 simply applies it.
#3 certainly just applies the deprecation. As for the first two, I don't see any reason to deprecate the functionality once the issues are resolved. If using utf-8 encoded bytes is going to work fine in all the same cases as using str, why discourage it?