[New-bugs-announce] [issue41190] msilib: SetProperty() accepts str, but GetProperty() returns bytes

[Serhiy Storchaka]

New submission from Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka+cpython at gmail.com>:

There is an inconsistency in the _msi.SummaryInformation class. Its method SetProperty() accepts str, but GetProperty() returns bytes (encoded with the Windows ANSI encoding).

Since os.fsencode()/os.fsdecode() now use UTF-8 encoding, it is not so easy to convert between bytes and str. Also, the encoding with the Windows ANSI encoding is lossy, so it may be that there is a loss in GetProperty().

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components: Windows
messages: 372777
nosy: paul.moore, serhiy.storchaka, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: msilib: SetProperty() accepts str, but GetProperty() returns bytes
type: behavior

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