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bytes vs. characters

bytes vs. characters

Posted Apr 24, 2015 17:22 UTC (Fri) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: bytes vs. characters by mbunkus
Parent article: Report from the Python Language Summit

> Only force encodings in places where you need that encoding; displaying the file name being the prime example.

Thanks a lot, this clarifies.

So the core issue seems to be: the filename being the only file handle. Lose the name and you lose the file. I agree it shouldn't be like this. For instance you can have an iterator that returns some opaque FileObject that does not really care about the name. Does Python have this?

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bytes vs. characters

Posted Apr 25, 2015 8:19 UTC (Sat) by peter-b (guest, #66996) [Link]

> So the core issue seems to be: the filename being the only file handle. Lose the name and you lose the file. I agree it shouldn't be like this. For instance you can have an iterator that returns some opaque FileObject that does not really care about the name. Does Python have this?

Yes. listdir(x) where x is bytes returns the raw filenames as bytes.

https://docs.python.org/3.4/library/os.html?highlight=lis...


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