How to waste computer memory?

[Terry Reedy]

On 3/18/2016 11:26 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:

> There's no problem providing pure Unicode strings. Things get iffy when
> Python's OS abstraction pretends sys.stdin is text or filenames are
> strings.

On Windows, filenames are arrays of wide chars, not bytes, and are 
better modeled as 3.x strings rather than bytes.  Hence, on Windows, the 
bytes API to filenames has been deprecated.  The unix situation is 
different.

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Terry Jan Reedy