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

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 4:58 AM, George Fischhof <george at fischhof.hu> wrote:
> Of course several details could be put into it, but I think it would better
> to let the developers decide the details, because they know the environment
> and the possibilities.

That's not how PEPs work :-). Someone has to do the work of collating
contradictory feedback and making opinionated design proposals, and
the person who does that is called the PEP author.

In this case, I'd also suggest framing the PEP as a list of specific
things that should be added to pathlib.Path, with justifications for
each. If your argument is "X should be in pathlib because it's in some
other module", then that's not very compelling -- by definition it
already means we have an X, so why do we need another? I think for a
number of these cases there actually is a good answer to that
question, but your PEP has to actually provide that answer :-).

-n

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