[Python-Dev] PEP 383: Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces

[Antoine Pitrou]

Simon Cross <hodgestar+pythondev <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> $ touch $'\xFF\xAA\xFF'
> $ vi $'\xFF\xAA\xFF'
> $ egrep foo $'\xFF\xAA\xFF'
> 
> All worked fine from my Bash shell with locale encoding set to UTF-8.

The PEP is precisely about making py3k able to better handle these files (right
now os.listdir() doesn't return the offending file in its list of results).

Regards

Antoine.