[Python-3000] Removing windows 95 specific code
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
amauryfa at gmail.com
Mon Nov 19 17:05:13 CET 2007
Hello,
Python 3.0 has already dropped support for Windows 9x in several
places, and is now expected to only work with the NT family.
I propose to remove the remaining code specific to windows 9x/ME.
This includes:
- Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES is always defined
- when given a unicode string, try to always use the wide version of
the win32 api.
- w9xpopen will disappear
Are there objections?
Windows CE uses unicode, and is supposed to survive this change.
Another question:
I noticed that open() and other functions accept bytes objects. Is it intended?
There is no test for this in the test suite. I will add some when I
know what is needed.
Another question #2:
on posix platforms, os.path.supports_unicode_filenames is False.
So far, this variable is only used to run test_pep277.py or not. Did
we make some progress on this topic since the unicode-everywhere
rewrite? (see also http://bugs.python.org/issue767645 )
Cheers,
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Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
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