[Python-Dev] Summary of the pathlib discussion (Re: Maybe, just maybe, pathlib doesn't belong.)
Brett Cannon
brett at python.org
Mon Apr 11 17:55:55 EDT 2016
On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 at 14:42 Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Alexander Walters <tritium-list at sdamon.com> writes:
>
> > That is great news. I just couldn't see it myself in the threads
>
> Agreed. A summary posting, from someone who has a good handle on the
> issue and outcome, would be very helpful.
>
- Guido has put Chris Angelico and myself in charge of drafting a
proposal once we are done discussing things as a PEP (probably an amendment
to the pathlib PEP where I will also explain why we are still not
subclassing str)
- Ethan Furman has volunteered to help out with code work (as have I)
- Name bikeshedding never seems to end, but there seems to be coalescing
around __fspath__ or __fspathname__ (I think, although __fspath__ seems to
be what everyone has been typing today; I'm trying to stay out of it so as
to not influence too much)
- We are only discussing two things still (all going on in the threads
relating to return values, arguments, types, etc. in their titles)...
- Should path.__fspath__() be allowed to return bytes on top of
strings? (we seem to have found an amicable way to allow
os.fspath() to let
a bytes argument pass through just like str in an explicit fashion)
- Should we explicitly type check in os.fspath() what
path.__fspath__() returns or just let it fall through and hope people do
the right thing?
That's pretty much it unless Chris or Ethan disagree. So I think pathlib is
far from being as dead as a parrot. ;)
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