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[Python-Dev] Windows: Remove support of bytes filenames in the os module?

Chris Barker chris.barker at noaa.gov
Mon Feb 8 15:41:28 EST 2016 
On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 6:32 AM, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com>
wrote:

>  Windows native type for filenames is
> Unicode, and the Windows has a weird behaviour when you use bytes.


Just to clarify -- what does it currently do for bytes? IIUC, Windows uses
UTF-16, so can you pass in UTF-16 bytes? Or when using bytes is is assuming
some Windows ANSI-compatible encoding? (and what does it return?)

Are we brave enough to force users to use the "right" type for filenames?
>

I think so :-)

On Python 2, it wasn't possible to use Unicode for filenames, many
> functions fail badly with Unicode,


I've had fine success using Unicode filenames with py2 on Windows -- in
fact, as soon as my users have non-ansi characters in their names I'm
pretty sure I have no choice....

especially when you mix bytes and
> Unicode.
>

well yes, that sure does get ugly!

-CHB


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