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its a specific bug in python3. not just rant, its a specific, well reasoned bug report.

• jnwatson 7y ago
  It is horrible compromise of a bad situation. 99% of the time file name bytes are UTF-8 decodable. What do you do in the other case? You could return a different type, but then that makes dealing with it harder. You could make a new filesystem name type, but that would make simple APIs complicated. Using a new control character is probably the best one could do.