New submission from Eric L. <ewl+pyt...@lavar.de>:
The os.path documentation at https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.path.html states that: > Vice versa, using bytes objects cannot represent all file names on Windows > (in the standard mbcs encoding), hence Windows applications should use string > objects to access all files. This doesn't sound right and is at least misleading because anything can be represented as bytes, as everything (in a computer) is bytes at the end of the day, unless mbcs is really using something like half-bytes, which I couldn't find any sign of (skimming through the documentation, Microsoft seems to interpret it as DBCS, one or two bytes). I could imagine that the meaning is that some bytes combinations can't be used as path under Windows, but I just don't know, and that wouldn't be a valid reason to not use bytes under Windows (IMHO). ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 388077 nosy: docs@python, ericzolf priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: os.path states that bytes can't represent all MBCS paths under Windows type: enhancement versions: Python 3.10, Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8, Python 3.9 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue43395> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
