[Python-Dev] Defining a path protocol

[Wes Turner]

On Apr 6, 2016 6:31 PM, "Brett Cannon" <brett at python.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 at 16:25 Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
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>> > On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 at 15:22 Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> >> So I think we need a builtin.
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>> > Well, the ugliness shouldn't survive forever if the community shifts
over to
>> > using pathlib while the built-in will. We also don't have a built-in
for
>> > __index__() so it depends on whether we expect this sort of thing to
be the
>> > purview of library authors or if normal people will be interacting
with it
>> > (it's probably both during the transition, but I don't know
afterwards).
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>> For __index__ the "built-in" is:
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>> from operator import index
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> Which suggests perhaps we should have pathlib.fspath() instead of a
built-in.

Would it make sense to instead have pathlib.Path.__init__?

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