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

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc amauryfa at gmail.com
Sat Sep 27 14:41:39 CEST 2008


Hello Victor,

2008/9/27 Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I read that Python 2.6 is planned to Wednesday. One bug is is still open and
> important for me: Python 2.6/3.0 are unable to use filename as byte strings.
>    http://bugs.python.org/issue3187
[...]

Is it really a 2.6 problem? I could not find any difference with 2.5
in this regard,
the tests you propose still pass.

> Filename manipulation: in python 2.6/3.0, os.path.*() is not compatible with
> the type "bytes"

With python 2.6,
>>> bytes is str
True


But I agree that this is THE unresolved issue of python 3.0.

-- 
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc


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