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

[Barry]

> On 12 Mar 2018, at 21:56, George Fischhof <george at fischhof.hu> wrote:
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> 2018-03-12 22:16 GMT+01:00 Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com>:
>> On 12 March 2018 at 20:57, George Fischhof <george at fischhof.hu> 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 don't know for certain what I think I feel about the idea - in
>> general, it seems plausible. But I think you'll need to get down to
>> specifics in the PEP, exactly what functions do you suggest get added
>> to pathlib?
>> 
>> Paul
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> Basically  file and directory operations: copy, rename, move, delete. With all variants.
> I will collect them, and put intot PEP
> 

I thought that because of __fspath__ conversions pathlib can be use with any function that needs a path. So long as shutil is Pathlib friendly isn’t this asolv d problem?

No need to extend pathlib for every file op, just pass the existed file ops a Path.

Wasn’t this discussed at the time fspath was added?

Barry

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