[Python-Dev] Is adding support for os.PathLike an enhancement or bugfix?

[Koos Zevenhoven]

On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 9:15 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> My allergies have hit me hard so I'm not thinking at full capacity, but did
> we ever decide if supporting os.PathLike in the stdlib was viewed as an
> enhancement or bugfix? Specifically I'm thinking of
> https://bugs.python.org/issue30218 for adding support to
> shutil.unpack_archive() and whether it should be backported to 3.6.
>

Haha, not sure if you have actual allergy, or if you just remembered
the fspath discussions nightmare ;).

You're obviously not asking me, but I'd say anything in the 3.6 stdlib
that takes a path, but not os.PathLike, should count as a bug.
Otherwise there will just be surprises with code that works on 3.7 but
not on the famously fspath-enabled 3.6. I'm not even 100% sure that
backporting to 3.5 would be (or would have been) a bad idea; 3.5 will
stick around for quite some time still.

-- Koos


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