[Python-Dev] Bytes path support
R. David Murray
rdmurray at bitdance.com
Tue Aug 26 04:41:31 CEST 2014
On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 11:25:19 +0900, "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> R. David Murray writes:
>
> > Also, as has been discussed in this thread previously, any program that
> > deals with filenames is dealing with human readable languages, even
> > if posix itself treats the filenames as bytes.
>
> That's a bit extreme. I can name two interesting applications
> offhand: git's object database and the Coda filesystem's containers.
As soon as I hit send I realized there were a few counter examples :)
So, replace "any" with "most".
--David
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