[Python-Dev] Patch for an initial support of bytes filename in Python3

[Simon Cross]

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:05 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> Actually on Windows the syscalls use the encoding that Microsoft uses
> -- when using bytes we use the Windows bytes API and when using str we
> use the Windows wide API. That's the most platform-compatible
> approach.

Woot. As long as the Python file API is consistent across the two
platforms, I'm happy. :)