Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Yes, this thing was doubted me too. I proceeded from the following considerations.
1. Often system id is used for file operations and in this case you need to use the file system encoding. Unfortunately Python 2 does not have 'surrogateescape' handler which would allow to encode arbitrary name and then restore and re-encode it for file operations. 2. Python 2 in contrary to Python 3 accepts bytes and they may not be valid UTF-8. We have to choose between compatibility with Python 2 and Python 3. I chose the first, because it is more important for bugfix. May be I am wrong. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11159> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
