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

[Barry Scott]

On Tuesday, 20 March 2018 16:22:57 GMT Brett Cannon wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 at 18:08 Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
> > [SNIP]
> > PS: does shutil really still not work with Path objects? aarrgg!
> 
> Did you verify this or are you just guessing? If this is true then file a
> bug and optionally submit a patch. Saying "aarrgg" doesn't fix the
> situation nor motivate people to help out, especially when it sounds like
> you're not even sure yourself that it's even a problem.

Checking this onm 3.6.4 on Fedora it looks like the shutil module
works well with Path().

There was one bit of code that I thought might not work but it is
not a problem as you cannot make a Path('b'filename').

Maybe the simplest change would be to add to the pathlib docs
a notice at the top that says look in shutil and os for the file operations.

Also show some examples of Path() working with shutil to do some
typical operations.

Barry