[Python-3000] [Python-Dev] Filename as byte string in python 2.6 or 3.0?

[Antoine Pitrou]

Greg Ewing <greg.ewing <at> canterbury.ac.nz> writes:
> 
> Seems like what will fail is taking one of these utf-8b
> decoded names and passing it to some external library
> that uses it as a filename without knowing that it has
> to use utf-8b to encode it. Then the funny characters
> won't be encoded the way they were originally,

But those funny characters only appear for invalid filenames. Passing filenames
to a library will work for valid filenames. Sure, not all the problem is solved,
but the most important part of it (have all filenames work with Python's IO
functions) is.