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On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 at 12:39 Fred Drake <fred@fdrake.net> wrote:

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 3:24 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
\> Is that the intention, or should the exception catching be narrower? I
\> know it's clunky to write it in Python, but AIUI it's less so in C:
\>
\> try:
\> callme = path.\_\_fspath\_\_
\> except AttributeError:
\> pass
\> else:
\> path = callme()

+1 for this variant; I really don't like masking errors inside the
\_\_fspath\_\_ implementation.

Don't read too much into the code in that gist. I just did them quickly to get the point across of the proposals in terms of str/bytes, not what will be proposed in any final patch.