[Python-Dev] Reject bytearray filename in Python 3.2

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Thu Apr 22 00:21:02 CEST 2010


Victor Stinner wrote:
> I will be very sad if someone ask me to keep bytearray filename support in 3.2 
> because I opened a lot of issues about surrogates and I would make my work 
> more diffcult :-(

I don't have an opinion one way or the other regarding bytearray, but
even if you deprecated it rather than dropping it, couldn't you just add
the surrogate support for the Unicode path and leave the bytecode path
with the legacy behaviour?

Cheers,
Nick.

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