[issue3688] open() rejects bytes as filename

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: This is actively being discussed (and developed) in issue3187 -- nosy: +amaury.forgeotdarc resolution: -> duplicate status: open -> closed superseder: -> os.listdir can return byte strings

[issue3688] open() rejects bytes as filename

Changes by Dwayne Litzenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -- components: +Library (Lib) -Windows type: -> behavior ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ ___

[issue3688] open() rejects bytes as filename

New submission from Dwayne Litzenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Linux/ext3, filenames are stored natively as sequences of octets. On Win32/NTFS, they are stored natively as sequences of Unicode code points. In Python 2.x, the way to unambiguously open a particular file was to pass the filename