[issue3187] os.listdir can return byte strings

[Guido van Rossum]

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> added the comment:

I'm not interested in the InvalidFilename class; it's an API
complification that might seem right for your situation but will hinder
most other people.  However I *am* interested in a patch that makes
os.unlink() (and as many other functions as you can think of) accept
bytes.  You'll have to think what encoding to use on Windows though,
since (AFAIK) the Windows filesystem APIs *do* use Unicode.

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