[issue3187] os.listdir can return byte strings
Antoine Pitrou
report at bugs.python.org
Fri Oct 3 13:31:38 CEST 2008
Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:
> You should also support bytearray() in ntpath:
> isinstance(path, (bytes, bytearray))
The most generic way of allowing all bytes-alike objects is to write:
path = bytes(path)
It raises a TypeError if `path` can't export a read-only buffer of
contiguous bytes; also, it is a no-op if `path` is already a bytes
object, so very cheap in the common case.
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