Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan <at> ochtman.nl> writes: > > As a hg developer, I have to concur. Keeping bytes-based APIs intact > would make porting hg to py3k much, much easier. You may be able to > imagine that dealing with paths correctly cross-platform on a VCS is a > major PITA, and py3k is currently not helping the situation.
bytes-based APIs are certainly more bullet-proof under Unix, but it's the reverse under Windows. Martin's proposal aims to bridge the gap and propose something that makes text-based APIs as bullet-proof under Unix as they already are under Windows. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
