On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 2:52 PM, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com> wrote:
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.
Couldn't agree more.
We even had multiple summaries :-)
I'm not quite as sure about this. Maybe the meaning of "summary" in the subculture of python lists is different from the one I know.
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.
I wonder what happened there...
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.
Again, agreed, and this part makes me feel relieved. Personally, I got tired of the discussion a long time ago, but felt it had to be finished.
I think that we have enough other topics to discuss in the meanwhile ;-)
No doubt about that.
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/
Wow. Wasn't expecting that. A whole story about the notorious "path discussions"! (well, up to some date). Anyway, the beginning seems fairly accurate, but then, among other things, it fails to mention this for example: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2016-March/039179.html https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2016-April/039595.html Since I did not get any responses to that suggestion, it felt like a dead end, and I continued experimenting with other things and ended up taking the approach of "subclassing path-types from str gives more complete pathlib support, but the objects should not pretend to be strings in every way". By the way, I even implemented this, which I suppose I failed to mention. Admittedly, it became a little awkward in the end, but the main point was to provide a smooth transition from a str world to a PurePath-subclass world (as opposed to a discrete one like Py3k). While I was working on that, the discussions on -dev seemed to have reopened the gate at exactly that 'dead end' I mentioned before, and had started to step through it. -Koos
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