[Python-ideas] Type hinting for path-related functions

[Brett Cannon]

On Fri, 13 May 2016 at 15:09 Koos Zevenhoven <k7hoven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 11:50 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> > On 05/13/2016 01:30 PM, Koos Zevenhoven wrote:
> >
> >> It turns out it has been almost a month since this, and the PEP draft
> >> is already looking good. It seems we might now be ready to discuss it.
> >> Should we add the generic type FSPath[str]?
> >
> >
> > Guido's post on one of the other threads:
> > ----------------------------------------
> >> There's no need for typing.PathLike.
> >
> > So I'm gonna say no.  ;)
> >
>
> Oh, it looks like a read those two emails in the wrong order ;).
>
> Anyway, I was going to suggest making the abstract base class
> subscriptable too like this: PathABC[str] is a str-based path ABC, and
> PathABC[bytes] a bytes-based one ;). I don't know if that should be
> called a generic type or not, though.
>

The PEP already addresses this and says "no".
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