[Python-Dev] Python-3.0, unicode, and os.environ

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at haypocalc.com
Fri Dec 5 10:43:10 CET 2008


Le Friday 05 December 2008 00:39:24 Martin v. Löwis, vous avez écrit :
> 5) represent all environment variables in Unicode strings,
>    including the ones that currently fail to decode.
>    (then do the same to file names, then drop the byte-oriented
>     file operations again)

Please, don't do that! Bytes are not characters!

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