> > > Since both have had to deal with this, have you looked at what they > > actually do before proposing PEP 383? What did you find? > > See > > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2007-September/010450.html >
Thanks, that's very useful. > > Why did you choose an incompatible approach for PEP 383? > > Because in Python, we want to be able to access all files on disk. > Neither Java nor Mono are capable of doing that. OK, so what's wrong with os.listdir() and similar functions returning a unicode string for strings that correctly encode/decode, and with byte strings for strings that are not valid unicode? The file I/O functions already seem to deal with byte strings correctly, you never get byte strings on platforms that are fully unicode, and they are well supported. Tom
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