[Python-Dev] file system path protocol PEP

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Fri May 13 02:07:10 EDT 2016


On 05/12/2016 01:59 PM, Sjoerd Job Postmus wrote:
>> On 12 May 2016, at 21:30, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>>
>> If you need bytes support for your paths, there's at least one [1] that has that support.
>
> So if I would need bytes support, I should submit a pull request to <arbitrary but awesome
 > library> which replaces usage of the stdlib pathlib with another 
variant, upon which they
 > will decline the pull request because it introduces another "useless" 
dependency.

My apologies, I thought you were talking about your own code.

As far as <arbitrary but awesome library> -- it wouldn't be awesome to 
me if I couldn't pass in the data types I need.

--
~Ethan~



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