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On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Nathaniel Smith <njs@pobox.com> wrote:

No, \_\_index\_\_ is the protocol for "do a safe coerce to integer". The name is misleading, but its use in non-indexing contexts is well established. E.g.

" ab" \* obj

will return a string with obj.\_\_index\_\_() repetitions.

A good argument for Chris A's proposal over on python-ideas to have a dunder method for "coerce to a lossless string", that could be used for Path, but also for who knows what else?

As I see it , exactly the same as the \_\_fspath\_\_ idea, except that we'd use a name that made it clear you might want to use it for other things (and str would grow that method...)

-CHB

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