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Document that bytes OS API can returns unusable results on Windows #60904

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serhiy-storchaka opened this issue Dec 16, 2012 · 8 comments
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Document that bytes OS API can returns unusable results on Windows #60904

serhiy-storchaka opened this issue Dec 16, 2012 · 8 comments
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BPO 16700
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labels = ['easy', 'type-feature', 'OS-windows', 'docs']
title = 'Document that bytes OS API can returns unusable results on Windows'
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Some OS functions which returns bytes (os.environb, os.getenvb(), os.getcwdb(), os.listdir(), os.readlink(), os.walk(), os.path.abspath(), os.path.expanduser(), os.path.expandvars(), os.path.realpath() and may be other) can return unusable result on Windows (see for example bpo-13247 and bpo-16656). The documentation should contains strong warnings about this.

@serhiy-storchaka serhiy-storchaka added docs Documentation in the Doc dir OS-windows type-feature A feature request or enhancement labels Dec 16, 2012
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I don't remember il the deprecation of bytes filename is documented.

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BreamoreBoy mannequin commented Oct 3, 2014

As bpo-13247 has been closed "not a bug" and bpo-16656 "won't fix" shouldn't this be done sooner rather than later?

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s-t-e-v-e-n-k mannequin commented Sep 12, 2016

I've looked at the documentation for both Python 3.5 and 3.6, and I think this is all fine -- things like os.environb and os.getcwdb() are clearly stated as not available on Windows, and the path functions look to work fine in my testing.

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warsaw commented Sep 12, 2016

Thanks Steve! Closing.

@warsaw warsaw closed this as completed Sep 12, 2016
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Maybe this issue is outdated in 3.6 (thanks to PEP-529), but this still is a problem under 3.5 and 2.7.

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This is now 2.7 only issue.

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Python 2.7 is no longer supported.

@ezio-melotti ezio-melotti transferred this issue from another repository Apr 10, 2022
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