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

[Koos Zevenhoven]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 9:45 PM, Koos Zevenhoven <k7hoven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> See my comment below (from this thread, but there were no reactions).
> I'm not sure if that option was ever considered. Can we let DirEntry
> dictate the future of Python?
>

BTW, don't get me wrong, I'm sure os.scandir is great, even if I have
not used it :). What I mean is that it's easier to change something
that was added more recently, i.e. when there are no old codebases
that depend on it. I just think we should get these things right,
before it's too late.

> On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 5:40 PM, Koos Zevenhoven <k7hoven at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Actually, now that .path is not out yet, would it make sense to call it
>> Path.str or Path.strpath instead, and introduce the same thing on DirEntry
>> and guarantee a str (instead of str or bytes as DirEntry.path now does)?
>> Maybe that would lead to fewer broken implementations in third-party
>> libraries too?
>
> -Koos