[Python-Dev] My work on Python3 and non-ascii paths is done

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Thu Oct 21 18:00:40 CEST 2010


On Oct 20, 2010, at 02:11 AM, Victor Stinner wrote:

>I plan to fix Python documentation: specify the encoding used to decode all 
>byte string arguments of the C API. I already wrote a draft patch: issue 
>#9738. This lack of documentation was a big problem for me, because I had to 
>follow the function calls to get the encoding.

That's exactly what I was looking for!  Thanks.  I think you've learned a huge
amount of good information that's difficult to find, so writing it up in a
more permanent and easy to find location will really help future Python
developers!

-Barry
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