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On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 at 12:10 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 5:03 AM, Chris Barker <chris.barker@noaa.gov> wrote:
\> On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 11:34 AM, Koos Zevenhoven <k7hoven@gmail.com> wrote:
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\>> >
\>> > \_\_pathstr\_\_ # pathstring
\>> >
\>>
\>> Or perhaps \_\_pathstring\_\_ in case it may be or return byte strings.
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\> I'm fine with \_\_pathstring\_\_ , but I thought it was already decided that it
\> would NOT return a bytestring!
I sincerely hope that's been settled on. There's no reason to have
this ever return anything other than a str. (Famous last words, I
know.)
It has been settled: pathlib.Path itself won't accept bytes anyway so there's no reason to expect this to ever return anything but str.