[issue8514] Create fsencode() and fsdecode() functions in os.path

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> added the comment:

Oh! In Python3, ntpath.expanduser() supports bytes path and uses sys.getfilesystemencoding() to encode an unicode environment variable to a byte string.

Should we remove bytes path support in ntpath.expanduser(), or support bytes in ntpath.fsencode()/.fsdecode()?

(sys.getfilesystemencoding() is "mbcs" on Windows)

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