* Gregory P. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-28 13:34:50 -0700]: > since any given path (not just fs) can have its own encoding it makes > the most sense to me to let the OS deal with the errors and not try to > enforce bytes vs string encoding type at the python lib. level.
But the underlying APIs differ; Linux uses bytestrings for filenames, whereas I believe the native Windows APIs take "wide" (ie. Unicode) strings. -- mithrandi, i Ainil en-Balandor, a faer Ambar
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