[issue25911] Regression: os.walk now using os.scandir() breaks bytes filenames on windows

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor added the comment:

Python 3.5.0 and 3.5.1 are out. I don't think that it's worth to add back
bytes support is os.walk() in 3.5.2. I would prefer to do the opposite and
really drop bytes support for all filenames in the whole stdlib in 3.6.

It's really a bad idea to use bytes on Windows. With Python 3, it becomes
possible and simple to handle filenames as Unicode on all platforms and in
all cases (see PEP 393 for undecodable filenames).

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