[Python-Dev] File system path encoding on Windows

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Tue Aug 30 17:51:36 EDT 2016


Le 30 août 2016 8:05 PM, "Nick Coghlan" <ncoghlan at gmail.com> a écrit :
> This seems to be the crux of the disagreement: our perceptions of the
> relative risks to native Windows Python applications that currently
> work properly on Python 3.5 vs the potential compatibility benefits to
> primarily *nix applications that currently *don't* work on Windows
> under Python 3.5.

As I already wrote once, my problem is also tjat I simply have no idea how
much Python 3 code uses bytes filename. For example, does it concern more
than 25% of py3 modules on PyPi, or less than 5%?

Having an idea of the ratio would help to move the discussion forward.

Victor
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