On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 10:36 AM, Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 19, 2016, at 12:20, Guido van Rossum wrote:
Also, I don't expect a future where bytes paths don't make sense, unless Linux starts enforcing a normalized UTF-8 encoding in the kernel.
Well, OSX does that now, but that's a whole other topic. Whether it is useful to represent paths as the bytes type in Python code is orthogonal to whether you can have paths that aren't valid strings in an encoding, considering that surrogateescape lets you represent any sequence of bytes as a str.
I'm sorry, I just don't see support for bytes paths going away any time soon (regardless of the alternative you bring up), so I think it's a waste of breath to discuss it further. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)