[Python-ideas] len(path) == len(str(path))

Hi everyone, I submitted a PR today, and Serhiy decided it needs a discussion on python-ideas and agreement from core developers before it could go forward. BPO: https://bugs.python.org/issue40752 PR: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/20348 Today I wrote a script and did this: sorted(paths, key=lambda path: len(str(path)), reverse=True) But it would have been nicer if I could do this: sorted(paths, key=len, reverse=True) So I implemented `PurePath.__len__` as `str(len(path))`. Serhiy and Remi objected, because it might not be obvious that the length of the path would be the length of string. What do you think? Can I get some +1s and -1s for this change? Thanks, Ram.