[Python-Dev] Python-3.0, unicode, and os.environ
Nick Coghlan
ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Dec 5 23:18:47 CET 2008
Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> Glob was just an example. Many use cases for directory traversal
>> couldn't care less if they see *all* files.
>>
> Okay. Makes it harder to prove correct or not if I don't know what the
> use case is :-) I can't think of a single use case off-hand.
>
> Even your example of a ??.txt file making retrieval of *.py files fail
> is a little broken. If there was a ??.py file that was undecodable the
> program would most likely want to know that file existed.
Why? Most programs won't be able to do anything with it. And if the
program *can* do something with it... that's what the bytes version of
the APIs are for.
Cheers,
Nick.
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