[Python-Dev] Pathlib enhancments - method name only

[Brett Cannon]

On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 at 11:13 Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

> On 04/08/2016 10:46 AM, Koos Zevenhoven wrote:
>  > On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 7:42 PM, Chris Barker  wrote:
>  >> On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 9:02 AM, Koos Zevenhoven wrote:
>
>  >>> I'm still thinking a little bit about 'pathname', which to me sounds
>  >>> more like a string than fspath does.
>  >>
>  >>
>  >> I like that a lot - or even "__pathstr__" or "__pathstring__"
>  >> after all, we're making a big deal out of the fact that a path is
>  >> *not a string*, but rather a string is a *representation* (or
>  >> serialization) of a path.
>
> That's a decent point.
>
> So the plausible choices are, I think:
>
> - __fspath__  # File System Path -- possible confusion with Path
>

+1


>
> - __fsstr__   # File System String
>

-1 Looks like a cat walked across my keyboard  or someone trying to come up
with a trendy startup name.


>
> - __fspathstr__ # File System Path String -- zero ambiguity, but
>                  # what a mouthful
>

-1 See above.

I personally still like __ospath__ as well.
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