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Author	vstinner
Recipients	loewis, pitrou, vstinner
Date	2009年01月01日.18:56:02
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> Hmm, I think the supported types should be the same for all > platforms, otherwise it creates unnecessary headaches. I'm don't know Windows very well, but I read many times that Windows uses unicode everywhere. I'm unable to decide if it's a good thing or not to support also bytes on Windows, and anyway I'm unable to write such patch. See also issue #4036 (bytes for subprocess.Popen), especially Martin's message msg74305 (Martin is our Windows expert ;-)).

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> Hmm, I think the supported types should be the same for all
> platforms, otherwise it creates unnecessary headaches.
I'm don't know Windows very well, but I read many times that Windows 
uses unicode everywhere. I'm unable to decide if it's a good thing or 
not to support also bytes on Windows, and anyway I'm unable to write 
such patch.
See also issue #4036 (bytes for subprocess.Popen), especially Martin's 
message msg74305 (Martin is our Windows expert ;-)).

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Date	User	Action	Args
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