[Python-Dev] pathlib - current status of discussions

[Chris Barker]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Koos Zevenhoven <k7hoven at gmail.com> wrote:

> > 1) A "proper" path object -- i.e. pathlib.Path or anything else that
> > supports the path protocol.
> >
> > 2) the bytes that the OS actually needs.
> >
>
> You do have a point there. But since bytes pathnames are deprecated on
> windows,


Ah -- there's the fatal flaw -- even Windows needs bytes at the lowest
level, but the decision was already made there to use str as the the
lingua-franca -- i.e. the user NEVER sees a path as a bytestring on
Windows? I guess that's decided then. str is the exchange format.

-CHB

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