[Python-Dev] When should pathlib stop being provisional?

[Ethan Furman]

On 04/05/2016 10:50 PM, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
> On 06.04.16 05:44, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>> The next challenge would then be to make a list of APIs to be updated
>> for 3.6 to implicitly accept "rich path" objects via the agreed
>> convention, with pathlib.PurePath used as a test class:
>>
>> * open()
>> * codecs.open() (et al)
>> * io.*
>> * os.path.*
>> * other os functions
>> * shutil.*
>> * tempfile.*
>> * shelve.*
>> * csv.*
>
> Not sure about os.path.*. The purpose of os.path module is manipulating
> string paths. From the perspective of pathlib it can look lower level.

The point is that a function that receives a "path" object (whether str 
or Path) shouldn't have to care: it should be able to call os.path.split 
on the thing it received and get back a usable answer.

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~Ethan~