[Python-Dev] Pathlib enhancements - acceptable inputs and outputs for __fspath__ and os.fspath()

[Ethan Furman]

On 04/14/2016 06:01 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:
> On 04/14/2016 05:20 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>> you'll have to impose it on me.
>
> Hmm.  Well, the good news is you have convinced me that letting bytes
> through willy-nilly is akin to loosing the hounds of hell on our code.
> The bad news is I was never in that camp.  ;)

Actually, in retrospect, I was in that camp at the beginning.  But 
Brett's code (and your arguments, amongst others) convinced me of that 
<one function with a flag> or <a pair of functions> would be better/safer.

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~Ethan~