David Watson <bai...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment: I wrote this patch to make confstr() return bytes (with code similar to 2.x), and document the change in "Porting to Python 3.2" and elsewhere, but it then occurred to me that you might have been talking about making a separate bytes API like os.environb. Which did you have in mind?
There is another option for a str API, which is to decode the value as ASCII with the surrogateescape error handler. The returned string will then round-trip correctly through PyUnicode_FSConverter(), etc., as long as the file system encoding is compatible with ASCII, which PEP 383 requires it to be. This is how undecodable command line arguments are currently handled when mbrtowc() is unavailable. ---------- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18582/confstr-bytes-3.2.diff _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9580> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
