[issue38864] dbm: Can't open database with bytes-encoded filename

[John Goerzen]

John Goerzen <jgoerzen at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

As has been pointed out to me, the surrogateescape method could be used here; however, it is a bit of an odd duckling itself, and the system's open() call accepts bytes; couldn't this as well?

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