>> And environment variables, command line arguments, and file names >> are not bytes, but characters. > > On Windows NT, sure. On Unix they're still bytes no matter how much we > want them to be characters.
Only in the API of the OS itself. Treating them as bytes in the application is a mistake. The bytes are intended to represent characters, so Python should treat them as what they are. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
