[Python-Dev] Defining a path protocol

[Brett Cannon]

On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 at 13:20 Sven R. Kunze <srkunze at mail.de> wrote:

> On 06.04.2016 21:02, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>
> +1 for __path__, +0 for __fspath__Â (I don't know how widespread the
>> notion that "fs" means "file system" is).
>
>
> Same here.  In the good old days, "fs" stood for a "Font Server."  And
> in even older (and better?) days, FS was a "Field Separator."
>
>
> The future is not the past. ;)
>
>
> What about
>
> __file_path__
>

Can be a directory as well (and you could argue semantics of file system
inodes, beginners won't know the subtlety and/or wonder where __dir_path__
is).
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