[Python-ideas] New PEP proposal -- Pathlib Module Should Contain All File Operations

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 15:35:56 +0000
Rhodri James <rhodri at kynesim.co.uk> wrote:
> On 12/03/18 20:57, George Fischhof wrote:
> > Good day all,
> > 
> > as it seemed to be a good idea, I wrote a PEP proposal for pathlib to
> > contain file operations.
> > 
> > Here is the draft. What do you think about this?  
> 
> I am mildly negative about this.  In my copious spare time (ho ho) I 
> have been considering the use of pathlib with things that aren't filing 
> systems, such as http or ftp.  Moving the file operations into pathlib 
> would strain that idea even harder than my (extremely superficial) 
> current thinking.

pathlib is meant for local filesystem paths.  Dealing with arbitrary
"things which look like paths or have paths in them" (URLs?) is a topic
for another library.

Regards

Antoine.