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

[Adam Olsen]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Victor Stinner
<victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> wrote:
> Le Monday 29 September 2008 17:16:47 Steven Bethard, vous avez écrit :
>> >  - getcwd() -> unicode
>> >  - getcwd(bytes=True) -> bytes
>>
>> Please let's not introduce boolean flags like this. How about
>> ``getcwdb`` in parallel with the old ``getcwdu``?
>
> Yeah, you're right. So i wrote a new patch: os_getcwdb.patch
>
> With my patch we get (Python3):
>  * os.getcwd() -> unicode
>  * os.getcwdb() -> bytes
>
> Previously in Python2 it was:
>  * os.getcwd() -> str (bytes)
>  * os.getcwdu() -> unicode

Why not do:
 * os.getcwd() -> unicode
 * posix.getcwdb() -> bytes

os gets the standard version and posix has an (unambiguously named)
platform-specific version.


-- 
Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus