[Python-Dev] pathlib - current status of discussions

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 3:10 AM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> https://gist.github.com/brettcannon/b3719f54715787d54a206bc011869aa1 has the
> four potential approaches implemented (although it doesn't follow the
> "separate functions" approach some are proposing and instead goes with the
> allow_bytes approach I originally proposed).

All of them have this construct:

try:
    path = path.__fspath__()
except AttributeError:
    pass

Is that the intention, or should the exception catching be narrower? I
know it's clunky to write it in Python, but AIUI it's less so in C:

try:
    callme = path.__fspath__
except AttributeError:
    pass
else:
    path = callme()

ChrisA