[Python-Dev] File system path PEP, part 2

[Guido van Rossum]

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 9:33 AM, Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:

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> On 05/13/2016 06:21 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
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> Really, if you want bytes, you should use os.fsencode(); if you want
> strings, use os.fsencode(); if you want to be polymorphic, use os.fspath()
> and check the type it returns.
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> Am I severely misunderstanding the API, or did you mean "if you want
> strings, use os.fsdecode()" here?
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encode, decode -- poh-tay-toe, poh-tah-toe. :-)

Another slip of the fingers, I did mean os.fsdecode() when you want strings.

encode, schmencode...

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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