From 5a34287b5dc75293bea02489feda22b4b6b28e3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2022 19:23:57 -0700 Subject: gh-91181: Add a What's New entry for dropping bytes support for `sys.path` (GH-94918) (cherry picked from commit ec4745b5f2c2a460f12c97243c5b7d875f24b0c8) Co-authored-by: Brett Cannon --- Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst index a5b9c31..58ecf33 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst @@ -383,6 +383,13 @@ Other Language Changes coerces negative zero to zero after rounding to the format precision. See :pep:`682` for more details. (Contributed by John Belmonte in :gh:`90153`.) +* Bytes are no longer accepted on :attr:`sys.path`. Support broke sometime + between Python 3.2 and 3.6 with no one noticing until after Python 3.10.0 + was released. Bringing back support would also be problematic due to + interactions between :option:`-b` and :attr:`sys.path_importer_cache` when + there is a mixture of strings and bytes keys. + (Contributed by Thomas Grainger in :gh:`91181`.) + Other CPython Implementation Changes ==================================== -- cgit v0.12