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On Apr 6, 2016 6:31 PM, "Brett Cannon" <brett@python.org> wrote:
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\> On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 at 16:25 Nathaniel Smith <njs@pobox.com> wrote:
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\>> On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> wrote:
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\>> > On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 at 15:22 Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:
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\>> >> So I think we need a builtin.
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\>> > Well, the ugliness shouldn't survive forever if the community shifts over to
\>> > using pathlib while the built-in will. We also don't have a built-in for
\>> > \_\_index\_\_() so it depends on whether we expect this sort of thing to be the
\>> > purview of library authors or if normal people will be interacting with it
\>> > (it's probably both during the transition, but I don't know afterwards).
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\>> For \_\_index\_\_ the "built-in" is:
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\>> from operator import index
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\> Which suggests perhaps we should have pathlib.fspath() instead of a built-in.

Would it make sense to instead have pathlib.Path.\_\_init\_\_?

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