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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2008-10-08 16:34:57 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2008-10-08 16:34:57 (GMT) |
| commit | 76e5538749947eaf5fbf6487805d004ea244b941 (patch) | |
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Some more notes about bytes/string filename APIs.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/os.path.rst b/Doc/library/os.path.rst index 71eeb53..795c9bc 100644 --- a/Doc/library/os.path.rst +++ b/Doc/library/os.path.rst @@ -19,6 +19,12 @@ path names. Vice versa, using bytes objects cannot represent all file names on Windows (in the standard ``mbcs`` encoding), hence Windows applications should use string objects to access all files. +.. note:: + + All of these functions accept either only bytes or only string objects as + their parameters. The result is an object of the same type, if a path or + file name is returned. + .. warning:: On Windows, many of these functions do not properly support UNC pathnames. |