[Python-3000] Unicode and OS strings

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Sep 14, 2007, at 5:15 AM, Hagen Fürstenau wrote:

> Is it too unreasonable to keep the byte strings we get from the OS as
> byte strings in Python (since we're not sure about their encoding) and
> offer functions for getting strings?
>
> sys.argv could be of type bytes and sys.arguments (or whatever)  
> could be
> a function taking an encoding parameter (which defaults to UTF-8) and
> returning strings.
>
> Of course that's backwards incompatible and I'm not sure if it's too
> late for something like this now.

It might be reasonable and even necessary, but I suspect usability  
will suffer.

- -Barry

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