[Python-Dev] Pathlib enhancments - method name only

[Ethan Furman]

On 04/10/2016 12:36 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On 10 April 2016 at 17:12, Greg Ewing wrote:

>> But there needs to be some way to ask a path object for
>> its native string representation, otherwise there would
>> be no point in using foreign path objects at all.
>
> In addition to the existing "str(pathobj)", a "path" property was
> recently added for that purpose:
>
>     >>> import pathlib
>     >>> pathlib.PureWindowsPath(".")
>     PureWindowsPath('.')
>     >>> pathlib.PureWindowsPath(".").path
>     '.'
>
> (The specific property name was chosen to match os.scandir's DirEntry.path)

But with the new __fspath__ enhancements wouldn't the .path attribute go 
away?

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~Ethan~