[Python-ideas] Better stdlib support for Path objects

[Donald Stufft]

> On Oct 7, 2014, at 9:17 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> 
> On Oct 07, 2014, at 07:54 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> 
>> A single dispatch generic function as an adapter API would be another
>> option, but would likely pose bootstrapping problems for the lowest level
>> interfaces like os.path and the open builtin.
> 
> I wouldn't expect low level APIs like os.path and built-in open to accept Path
> objects.  pathlib already covers most of those use cases, and whatever is
> missing from there can probably be easily added.   It's higher level libraries
> accepting Path objects that is more interesting I think.
> 
> Cheers,
> -Barry

TBH I find a path library that I can’t use anywhere I use paths to be rather neutered.

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