[Python-ideas] Better stdlib support for Path objects

[Juancarlo Añez]

On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Wolfgang Maier <
wolfgang.maier at biologie.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:

> then call str() on all input that passes an isinstance(input, Path) check,
> raise an error otherwise.


Calling:

    path=str(path)

within all API functions that accept file paths is a good enough solution,
and one that doesn't change dependencies in stdlib.

Most of the API functions I've had to call with str(path) don't return
another path, but some more-structured else (json, csv, configparser, ...).

Maintainers could silently start adding the path=str(path) prolog to the
API so declaring official support for Path can be postponed until it is
certified that there's 100% coverage in stdlib.

Cheers,

-- 
Juancarlo *Añez*
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