Hello, Harry!
I just noticed this thread.
I opened a ticket for this a while back:
https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/5203# FilePath.children() should
return FilePath objects with unicodes in them instead of strs
There is some discussion on that ticket.
For what it is worth, I agree with It
I just wrote a blog post that people who like thinking about deferreds
might find interesting. Somehow it took me 7 years to one day look at
deferreds in this way:
http://blogs.fluidinfo.com/terry/2013/09/12/promises-are-first-class-objects-for-function-calls/
(With apologies for mainly describing