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

[Guido van Rossum]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> Victor Stinner schrieb:
>> 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.

I'm not sure either way. I've heard it claim that Windows filesystem
APIs use Unicode natively. Does Python 3.0 on Windows currently
support filenames expressed as bytes? Are they encoded first before
passing to the Unicode APIs? Using what encoding?

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