[Python-Dev] Removal of Win32 ANSI API

[Victor Stinner]

On Thursday 11 November 2010 17:07:28 Hirokazu Yamamoto wrote:
> Hello. Is it possible to remove Win32 ANSI API (ie: GetFileAttributesA)
> and only use Win32 WIDE API (ie: GetFileAttributesW)?
> Mainly in posixmodule.c.

Even if I hate the MBCS encoding, because it replaces undecodable characters 
by similar glyphs by default, I'm not certain that it is a good idea to drop 
the bytes API. Can it be a problem to port programs from Python2 to Python3? 
Do major Python2 programs/libraries rely on the bytes API?

> I think we can simplify the code hugely. (This means droping bytes
> support for os.stat etc on windows)

Sure, it will divide the number of lines, of the code specific to Windows, by 
two.

Victor