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

[James Y Knight]

On Sep 29, 2008, at 7:50 PM, Adam Olsen wrote:
> I'd rather the 1% of cases that need to handle bad file names make an
> explicit effort to do so, via alternate byte APIs or (if necessary)
> the 8859-1 hack.

So are you okay with python failing to run properly if the current  
directory has strange bytes in it? What if something odd is on the  
PATH environment variable? So much for being able to access  
os.environ['PATH']? I just don't see how that's okay behavior of a  
programming language to fail so drastically.

Unless you're proposing that nothing in python itself ever use the  
Unicode file API...but if you're proposing that, it kinda seems silly  
to even have it.

James