[Python-Dev] unicode_string future, str -> basestring, fix or feature

Chris Barker chris.barker at noaa.gov
Mon Mar 3 17:37:15 CET 2014


On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 6:44 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

> AFACT, in that message Victor was only talking about allowing Unicode
> filenames.
>
...

> Finally, in most places Python 2.7 *does* handle Unicode filenames just
> fine.
>

I'm a bit confused. In this example:

http://bugs.python.org/issue18695

You are proposing that the issue should be considered a bug and a
well-written patch accepted?

Or is is just too late for 2.7 ?

Personally I think that having some, but not all file functions accept
unicode paths is pretty broken....and fixing these kinds of thing will ease
2 to 3 transition, so a good thing overall.

- Chris


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