Message 73910 - Python tracker

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Benjamin Peterson
<report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
> Ok. Here's another possibility. It adds another optional parameter to
> listdir. If False, bytes strings can be returned. Otherwise, the
> UnicodeDecodeError is reraised.

I don't see the advantage over the existing rule bytes in -> bytes out...