[Python-3000] Unicode and OS strings

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sat Sep 22 21:27:58 CEST 2007


> The filesystem is unrelated to sys.argv, except for the need to pass
> filenames through argv.  If the filesystem is using bytes rather than
> characters, then sys.argv must offer the same option, or else certain
> scripts will (under some rare circumstances) fail.

The same holds for file names on Windows - they aren't byte strings,
either.

Regards,
Martin


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