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 -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception Chris.Barker at noaa.gov -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20160412/5e3cb315/attachment.html>
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