29 Mar
2016
29 Mar
'16
5:57 p.m.
On 29 March 2016 at 22:00, Sven R. Kunze srkunze@mail.de wrote:
However, something that I cannot leave uncommented is "suboptimal representation for paths". What would your optimal representation for paths look like? I cannot believe that the current representation is so bad and has been for so long and nobody, really nobody, has anything done about it.
Well, pathlib.Path :-)
The point here is that C's char* representation is a serialisation of a path object, just like 123 is a serialisation of an integer object. We don't object to having to convert user input to a string if we need to, why object to having to convert it to a Path if appropriate?
Paul