[Python-ideas] Working with Path objects: p-strings?

[Ethan Furman]

On 03/30/2016 08:18 AM, Paul Moore wrote:

> And of course code that has to deal with *both* Path and string
> objects (for compatibility reasons) can easily enough handle anything
> it receives, but has a decision to make about what to return - if it
> returns Path objects, it won't be backward compatible. But if it
> returns string objects, we'll never get away from the need to convert
> strings to paths in our code at some point.

A solution here is to return what you receive:

- str coming in? str going out
- path coming in? path going out

Of course, this gets muddied when multiple path/str arguments are 
accepted coming in.

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~Ethan~