File system path annotations

[Roel Schroeven]

Op 19/06/2023 om 11:44 schreef Peter Slížik:
> Thank you, Roel. You've answered all my questions.
>
> > [PEP 519]: ...as that can be represented with typing.Union[str, 
> bytes, os.PathLike] easily enough and the hope is users
> > will slowly gravitate to path objects only.
>
> I read a lot on Python and, frankly, I don't see this happening. 
> People on the Internet keep using /str/ as their path representation 
> choice. Presumably, programmers don't feel the need to bother with a 
> complex solution if the simplest option works just fine.
I agree, I don't see that happening either. I often find myself using 
str for paths: often simple filenames are all that's needed, and then I 
don't see much point in importing pathlib and wrapping the filenames in 
Path() constructors. I do tend to switch to path objects when I start 
needing to do operations on the paths, though.

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