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vstinner

opened on Oct 18, 2022

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In Python 3.6, the support for "bytes-like" paths was deprecated (commit d73c318): see issue #70987 for the rationale.

I propose to remove the support for bytes-like paths in Python 3.12. The feature was deprecated in 6 Python releases (PEP 387 is respected). In practice, the two most common "bytes-like" types are: bytearray and memoryview.

• PR: gh-98393: Update test_os for bytes-like types #98487

Reacted by Serhiy Storchaka

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2. vstinner commented on Oct 18, 2022

   

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   In Python 3.2, I removed support for bytearray in PyUnicode_FSConverter(): issue #52731, commit dcb2403.

   commit dcb2403022520028a633143602359a30080ed257
   Author: Victor Stinner <[email protected]>
   Date:   Thu Apr 22 12:08:36 2010 +0000
   
       Issue #8485: PyUnicode_FSConverter() doesn't accept bytearray object anymore,
       you have to convert your bytearray filenames to bytes
   

   It seems like support for bytes-like object was added again in Python 3.4 with commit a2ad5c3 (issue #60176):

   +        if (PyObject_CheckBuffer(o))
   +            bytes = PyBytes_FromObject(o);
   

   Or maybe this change is unrelated, and Python 3.2 and 3.3 already accepted bytes-like types indirectly.
3. vstinner commented on Oct 18, 2022

   

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   I created PR #98394 to implement this change.
4. vstinner commented on Oct 18, 2022

   

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   It seems like support for bytes-like object was added again in Python 3.4 with commit a2ad5c3 (issue #60176):

   Ah no, it was reintroduced in Python 3.3 with "the big path_converter changes": #70987 (comment)
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   gh-98393: os module reject bytes-like, only accept bytes (#98394)

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   added a commit that references this issue on Nov 2, 2022

   gh-98393: Update test_os for bytes-like types (#98487)

   f3007ac
7. vstinner commented on Nov 3, 2022

   

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   Fixed by db03c80 (with f3007ac cleanup).
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   closed this as completedon Nov 3, 2022

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