[Python-ideas] `to_file()` method for strings

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 5:06 PM, Koos Zevenhoven <k7hoven at gmail.com> wrote:

> Then, somewhat less often, I need to give a str as an argument to
> something. I then need an additional str(...) around the Path object.
> That just feels stupid and makes me start wishing Path was a subclass of
> str, and/or that Path was a builtin. ... Has this been discussed?
>

Yes, right in the PEP 428 where pathlib was proposed. [1]

[1]: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0428/#id29
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