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On Wed, May 27, 2015, at 07:47, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> because Python 3 doesn't have non-unicode StringIO

That's actually not true - the non-unicode equivalent is BytesIO.
However, it's probably not actually what you want, if the point is to
display the filenames to the user.