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

Serhiy Storchaka storchaka at gmail.com
Wed Feb 10 07:41:30 EST 2016


On 08.02.16 16:32, Victor Stinner wrote:
> On Python 2, it wasn't possible to use Unicode for filenames, many
> functions fail badly with Unicode, especially when you mix bytes and
> Unicode.

Even not all os functions support Unicode.
See http://bugs.python.org/issue18695.




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