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On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 00:53:53 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> and most routines that handle file names accept either text strings or 
> bytes strings:

I was going to say "that just leaves environ and argv". But I see that
os.environb was added in 3.2. Which just leaves argv.