On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 7:54 AM, Sven R. Kunze <srkunze@mail.de> wrote:

My conclusion is that these changes are not optional and tweaking os, io and shutil is just yet another workaround for a clean solution. :)

Is the clean solution to re-implement EVERYTHING in the stdlib that involves a path in a new, fancy pathlib way?

If we were starting from scratch, I _might_ like that idea, but we're not starting from scratch. And that would cement in pathlib itself, leaving no room for other path implementations. kind of like how the pre-__Index__ python cemented in python integers as the only objects once could use to index a sequence.