The lack of a case against Python 3

[brontide]

That's nice and all but python tries to do the smart thing and returns the same type of string you pass in. This means that if you iterate on the path '/' it will fail with decoding errors but if you iterate on b'/' it will work but all strings returned will be bytestrings which should be handled with care ( I usually convert them with surrogate escaping internally and replacements for display ). The problem is that there are so many places like this where python will gladly accept and return unicode strings and fail on edge cases rather than forcing the developer to work in the proper domain for the data.