[Python-3000] [Python-Dev] Filename as byte string in python 2.6 or 3.0?

[Antoine Pitrou]

Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen <at> xemacs.org> writes:
> 
> What makes you think the filenames are invalid?  The file*names* are
> probably perfectly valid in the intended encoding; they are simply
> invalid in the encoding that Python wants to apply.

Those filenames don't work today with Python 3, the problem is to make them work.
Whether they are valid or not in a hypothetical encoding is none of our
business, if it's not the encoding we are expecting.