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authorSerhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>2016-11-20 06:25:07 (GMT)
committerSerhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>2016-11-20 06:25:07 (GMT)
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Issue #27998: Documented bytes paths support on Windows.
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@@ -1196,6 +1196,8 @@ See the summary for :ref:`PEP 519 <whatsnew36-pep519>` for details on how the
:mod:`os` and :mod:`os.path` modules now support
:term:`path-like objects <path-like object>`.
+:func:`~os.scandir` now supports :class:`bytes` paths on Windows.
+
A new :meth:`~os.scandir.close` method allows explicitly closing a
:func:`~os.scandir` iterator. The :func:`~os.scandir` iterator now
supports the :term:`context manager` protocol. If a :func:`scandir`