On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 1:23 AM, Koos Zevenhoven <k7hoven@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 9:10 PM, Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> wrote:
I also want to mention two things. One, pathlib.path is a thing now and something most people are probably not aware of as an alternative to doing `str(path)`: https://docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html#pathlib.PurePath.path .
I assume you meant to type pathlib.Path.path, so that Path("...").path == str(Path("...")). That's a good start, and I'm looking forward to Serhiy's patch for making the stdlib accept Paths. But if Path will not subclass str, we also need new stdlib functions that *return* Paths.
Actually, now that .path is not out yet, would it make sense to call it Path.str or Path.strpath instead, and introduce the same thing on DirEntry and guarantee a str (instead of str or bytes as DirEntry.path now does)? Maybe that would lead to fewer broken implementations in third-party libraries too? - Koos