[Python-3000] [Python-Dev] Filename as byte string in python 2.6 or 3.0?

[Gregory P. Smith]

On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 2:13 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
>> "broken" systems will always exist.  Code to deal with them must be
>> possible to write in python 3.0.
>
> Python 3.0 will have bugs. This might just be one of them. I can agree
> that Python 3.x will need to support that somehow, but perhaps not 3.0.
>
> Regards,
> Martin

Agreed.  At this point I think we just need to get 3.0 out there and
be willing to fix flaws like this for 3.1 or in some cases for 3.0.1.