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

[Eric Fahlgren]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 9:59 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

> I am convinced that *some* people, especially but not limited to newbies,
> find the current situation confusing and less than optimal.  I am also
> pretty convinced that the idea of dumping a copy of everything into pathlib
> is the wrong solution. I most agree with the latest posts from Nathaniel
> Smith and Stephen Trunball.
>
>
 I'm confused
​ by the whole discussion​
because I thought pathlib was a means for dealing with paths (i.e., names
of things), not the objects to which they refer
​, and was simply a Pythonic modernization of os.path.​
​
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