* Nick Coghlan wrote: > Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > Note 2: If there isn't a parallel API on all platforms, for instance, > > Guido's proposal to not have os.environb on Windows, then you'll still > > have to have a platform specific check. (Likely you should try to > > access os.evironb in this instance and if it doesn't exist, use > > os.environ instead... and remember that you need to either change > > os.environ's data into str type or change os.environb's data into byte > > type.) > > Note that this is why I personally think the binary API variants > *should* exist on Windows, just with the sense of the system encoding > flipped around. > > That is, on *nix: > - underlying OS API uses bytes > - binary API just passes values straight through > - Unicode API uses the system encoding to encode Unicode names and > values to be passed to the OS API and to decode bytes names and values > received from the OS API > > While on Windows: > - underlying OS API uses Unicode > - Unicode API just passes values straight through > - binary API uses the system encoding to decode bytes names and values > to be passed to the OS API and to encode Unicode names and values > received from the OS API
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