[Python-Dev] Emit a BytesWarning on bytes filenames on Windows

[Terry Reedy]

On 10/30/2011 5:39 PM, Victor Stinner wrote:

> Terry J. Reedy is also concerned about backward compatibility (3.2 ->
> 3.3). Emiting a warning, disabled by default, is a softer solution :-)

The fact that Mark, Martin, and someone else, I believe, agree with you 
that the bytes api is not useful at all in 3.x and should go away 
reduces my concern. This fact does suggest that it is not worth changing 
anything to make those APIs easier to use. Instead, better to encourage 
people to not use those APIs in any 3.x code. Removal is ultimately, of 
course, the hardest solution.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy