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[Python-Dev] Support byte string API of Windows in Python3?

[Python-Dev] Support byte string API of Windows in Python3? [Python-Dev] Support byte string API of Windows in Python3?Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Mon Apr 19 13:07:05 CEST 2010
Victor Stinner <victor.stinner <at> haypocalc.com> writes:
> 
> It's a choice, I didn't want to patch Windows because I know that Windows use 
> unicode internally. I consider that developers using Python3 should use 
> unicode on Windows, and byte or unicode+surrogates on other OS.

I think both possibilities should be available on all OSes, so as to make it
easier to write cross-platform code. Having to switch being bytes and unicode
depending on the OS means developers will have to deal with encoding issues
themselves, which is suboptimal from a language usability's point of view.

Regards

Antoine.


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