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

[Ethan Furman]

Koos Zevenhoven 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?

No.  On the other hand, we'd need a /really/ good reason to change it now.

> 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?

DirEntry needs to return the same type it was given, and one can give it 
both bytes and strings.

Your first point /may/ be valid.  The big question is: is DirEntry 
provisional?  I don't think it is.  In which case, we're stuck with 
.path on DirEntry, and may as well use the same name for the same idea 
on pathlib.Path.

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~Ethan~