[Python-Dev] Bytes path support

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Aug 20 00:01:11 CEST 2014


Ben Hoyt wrote:

> Does that mean that new APIs should explicitly not support bytes? 
 > ... Bytes paths are essentially broken on Windows.

But on Unix, paths are essentially bytes. What's the
official policy for dealing with that?

-- 
Greg


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