[issue25911] Regression: os.walk now using os.scandir() breaks bytes filenames on windows

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor added the comment:

> New changeset 5310f94772f4 by Serhiy Storchaka in branch '3.5':
> Issue #25911: Restored support of bytes paths in os.walk() on Windows.
> https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/5310f94772f4
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> New changeset b060af2a58b6 by Serhiy Storchaka in branch 'default':
> Issue #25911: Restored support of bytes paths in os.walk() on Windows.
> https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/b060af2a58b6

While this change is ok for Python 3.5, I would prefer to *drop* support for bytes filenames on Windows. I started a thread on python-dev for that:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2016-February/143150.html

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