[Python-Dev] pathlib - current status of discussions

[Random832]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016, at 12:40, Chris Barker wrote:
> Ah -- there's the fatal flaw -- even Windows needs bytes at the lowest
> level,

Only in the sense that literally everything's bytes at the lowest level.
But the bytes Windows needs are not in an ASCII-compatible encoding so
it's not reasonable to talk about them in the same way as every other
kind of bytes filename.

> but the decision was already made there to use str as the the
> lingua-franca -- i.e. the user NEVER sees a path as a bytestring on
> Windows? I guess that's decided then. str is the exchange format.