> So you are saying that you see no problem with the repr of a fileobject 
> being generated in different ways depending on the fileobject being 
> unicode or string?

My question is: What is the issue at hand? Is it what the subject says
(inconsistent representation), or is it what your first message says
(problems on Vista)? If the former, I'm opposed to fixing it. If the
latter, I'm in favor of the straight-forward fix to the test suite.