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Author	vstinner
Recipients	docs@python, giampaolo.rodola, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, vstinner, zach.ware
Date	2016-02-10.15:44:32
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> Different but kind of related, disk_usage() is not able to accept bytes: On Python 3, I don't think that it's a big issue: bytes filenames are deprecated. See the current thread on python-dev: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2016-February/143150.html It's really much better to use Unicode on Windows, and I also suggest you to use Unicode on UNIX/BSD.

> Different but kind of related, disk_usage() is not able to accept bytes:

On Python 3, I don't think that it's a big issue: bytes filenames are
deprecated.

See the current thread on python-dev:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2016-February/143150.html

It's really much better to use Unicode on Windows, and I also suggest
you to use Unicode on UNIX/BSD.

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Date	User	Action	Args
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