[Python-Dev] Support byte string API of Windows in Python3?

[Antoine Pitrou]

Victor Stinner <victor.stinner <at> haypocalc.com> writes:
> 
> It's a choice, I didn't want to patch Windows because I know that Windows use 
> unicode internally. I consider that developers using Python3 should use 
> unicode on Windows, and byte or unicode+surrogates on other OS.

I think both possibilities should be available on all OSes, so as to make it
easier to write cross-platform code. Having to switch being bytes and unicode
depending on the OS means developers will have to deal with encoding issues
themselves, which is suboptimal from a language usability's point of view.

Regards

Antoine.