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Moving to Python 3Moving to Python 3Posted Feb 15, 2011 1:24 UTC (Tue) by yuhong (guest, #57183)In reply to: Moving to Python 3 by cmccabe Parent article: Moving to Python 3
Yea, it is not Python's fault that historically there has been no standard character encoding beyond ASCII for Unix filenames, in contrast to Windows LFN filenames and Mac HFS+ filenames, both of which used UTF-16 from the beginning.
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Moving to Python 3 Posted Feb 15, 2011 14:32 UTC (Tue) by nevyn (subscriber, #33129) [Link]
> Yea, it is not Python's fault [that unix doesn't look like windows]
It is exactly python's fault that it pretends unix is like windows, when it isn't.
Moving to Python 3 Posted Feb 15, 2011 14:52 UTC (Tue) by foom (subscriber, #14868) [Link]
> It is exactly python's fault that it pretends unix is like windows, when it isn't.
Except that python doesn't actually do that, see comment above...
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