[Python-ideas] Working with Path objects: p-strings?

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Tue Mar 29 03:51:14 EDT 2016


On 29 March 2016 at 08:31, Sven R. Kunze <srkunze at mail.de> wrote:
> Paths are strings (even for the os).

On Unix, paths are bytestrings, not strings (in Python 3, string =
Unicode string), but on Windows they are Unicode strings. Having an
abstraction over this OS difference is useful.

Paul


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