[Python-ideas] Better stdlib support for Path objects

[Ed Kellett]

On 7 October 2014 14:37, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> What would __strpath__ do that __str__ wouldn't do?  Or do you think it's
> better to explicitly disallow str-like objects that aren't path objects?

What is a str-like object? A lot of objects are acceptable to str();
most of them aren't "str-like" in any reasonable sense of the term
(e.g. function, int), and probably shouldn't be acceptable as paths.


edk