Hi, I'm unable to count the number of threads about the fspath protocol. It's even more difficult to count the total number of emails. IMHO everyone had enough time to give him/her opinion. We even had multiple summaries :-) Can you please wait for a PEP? Brett Canon and Ethan Furman are working on a PEP. So please give them time to write it. The PEP should summarize the discussion and help a lot to make concrete progress on the design (avoid restarting to discuss the same points forever). I don't expect that more emails would add anything at the current state of the discussion. I think that we have enough other topics to discuss in the meanwhile ;-) FYI there is already an article about fspath/pathlib on LWN. Here is a free link until the article is freely accessible: "Python looks at paths" By Jake Edge (April 13, 2016) https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/683350/4f52334af09653c8/ Victor