bytes vs. characters

Posted Apr 23, 2015 18:03 UTC (Thu) by zlynx (guest, #2285)
In reply to: bytes vs. characters by marcH
Parent article: Report from the Python Language Summit

Silent failure is always a STUPID idea.

If Python3 really is silently ignoring invalid filenames then that should be marked as a critical flaw.

The real world is not a perfect place with perfectly encoded strings.