[Python-Dev] Removal of Win32 ANSI API

[André Malo]

On Thursday 11 November 2010 20:50:35 Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> > 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 don't actually know for a fact, but I expect that the answer is "no".
>
> The questions is: where do file names typically come from? My guess
> is that they come from
> a) hard-coded strings in the source code
> b) command line arguments/environment variables

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> In case b), they will be Unicode strings in Python 3.

But not neccessarily with unicode semantics if I get the discussions about the 
environment topic right.

Additionally:

d) Over a socket (like the HTTP protocol) -> Bytes.

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