[Python-3000] basestring removal, __file__ and co_filename

[Christian Heimes]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> How about just using ascii if the codec system isn't fully
> operational? It would just mean that files needed during
> bootstrapping would need to have pure-ascii filenames,
> which doesn't seem like a serious restriction.

The file names aren't the issue but the directory names are. For example
it may screw up a local installation in the user's application data
directory on Windows if the user name contains umlauts. Any kind of
installation in $HOME would cause trouble if $USER isn't plain ASCII.

Christian