[Python-Dev] Windows: Remove support of bytes filenames in theos module?

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Steve Dower <python at stevedower.id.au> wrote:
> I really don't like the idea of not being able to use bytes in cross
> platform code. Unless it's become feasible to use Unicode for lossless
> filenames on Linux - last I heard it wasn't.

It has, but only in Python 3 - anyone who needs to support 2.7 and
arbitrary bytes in filenames can't use Unicode strings.

ChrisA