On Mon, Aug 15, 2016, at 12:35, Steve Dower wrote: > I'm still not sure we're talking about the same thing right now. > > For `open(path_as_bytes).read()`, are we talking about the way > path_as_bytes is passed to the file system? Or the codec used to decide > the returned string?
We are talking about the way path_as_bytes is passed to the filesystem, and in particular what encoding path_as_bytes is *actually* in, when it was obtained from a file or other stream opened in binary mode. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
