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

[Tristan Seligmann]

* Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org> [2008-09-28 13:34:50 -0700]:

> since any given path (not just fs) can have its own encoding it makes
> the most sense to me to let the OS deal with the errors and not try to
> enforce bytes vs string encoding type at the python lib. level.

But the underlying APIs differ; Linux uses bytestrings for filenames,
whereas I believe the native Windows APIs take "wide" (ie. Unicode)
strings.
-- 
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