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Mon Sep 29 17:16:47 CEST 2008 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-September/082610.html

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Victor Stinner
<victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> wrote:
> The default behaviour should be to use unicode and raise an error if
> conversion to unicode fails. It should also be possible to use bytes using
> bytes arguments and optional arguments (for getcwd).
>
>  - listdir(unicode) -> unicode and raise an error on invalid filename
>  - listdir(bytes) -> bytes
>  - getcwd() -> unicode
>  - getcwd(bytes=True) -> bytes

Please let's not introduce boolean flags like this. How about
``getcwdb`` in parallel with the old ``getcwdu``?

Steve
-- 
I'm not *in*-sane. Indeed, I am so far *out* of sane that you appear a
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