[Python-3000] New proposition for Python3 bytes filename issue

[Georg Brandl]

Victor Stinner schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> After reading the previous discussion, here is new proposition.
> 
> Python 2.x and Windows are not affected by this issue. Only Python3 on POSIX 
> (eg. Linux or *BSD) is affected.
> 
> Some system are broken, but Python have to be able to open/copy/move/remove 
> files with an "invalid filename".
> 
> The issue can wait for Python 3.0.1 / 3.1.
> 
> Windows
> -------
> 
> On Windows, we might reject bytes filenames for all file operations: open(), 
> unlink(), os.path.join(), etc. (raise a TypeError or UnicodeError)

Since I've seen no objections to this yet: please no. If we offer a
"lower-level" bytes filename API, it should work for all platforms.

Georg

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