[Python-Dev] a suggestion ... Re: PEP 383 (again)

[glyph at divmod.com]

On 08:25 am, martin at v.loewis.de wrote:
>>Why did you choose an incompatible approach for PEP 383?
>
>Because in Python, we want to be able to access all files on disk.
>Neither Java nor Mono are capable of doing that.

Java is not capable of doing that.  Mono, as I keep pointing out, is. 
It uses NULLs to escape invalid UNIX filenames.  Please see:

http://go-mono.com/docs/index.aspx?link=T%3AMono.Unix.UnixEncoding

"The upshot to all this is that Mono.Unix and Mono.Unix.Native can list, 
access, and open all files on your filesystem, regardless of encoding."