[Python-Dev] file system path protocol PEP

[Ethan Furman]

On 05/12/2016 10:21 AM, Sven R. Kunze wrote:
> On 12.05.2016 18:56, Ethan Furman wrote:
>> On 05/12/2016 09:26 AM, Sven R. Kunze wrote:

>>> str and bytes will receive the __fspath__ attribute when this PEP is
>>> accepted?
>>
>> No, they won't.  The __fspath__ protocol will reduce the rich path
>> object down to a str/bytes object.
>
> Would this make the implementation of os.fspath simpler?

Maybe, but a bad idea for two reasons:

1) Reducing a str to the exact same str is silly; and, more importantly
2) not every str/bytes is a path

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~Ethan~