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

[Guido van Rossum]

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 9:33 AM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> No comments from me, although it's going to be interesting making this all
> work in Typeshed if we backport the PathLike support to the pathlib
> constructor to 3.4 and 3.5 but (obviously) not os.PathLike itself.

By then mypy should support "if sys.version_info >= ..." checks.
(There's some work required still:
https://github.com/python/mypy/issues/698)

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