[Python-ideas] Why was Path.path added?

Antony Lee antony.lee at berkeley.edu
Thu Apr 21 02:38:34 EDT 2016


Well, it's already there and it's probably too late to remove it, but
introducing the idiom

path_str = getattr(arg, "path", arg)


was not necessary: you could also write

path_str = str(Path(arg))


which works just as well.

My 2c.,

Antony
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