[Python-Dev] Alternative path suggestion (original) (raw)

Giovanni Bajo rasky at develer.com
Sat May 6 01:12:33 CEST 2006

Noam Raphael <noamraph at gmail.com> wrote:

The only drawback I can see in using a logical representation is that giving a path object to functions which expect a path string won't work. The immediate solution is to simply use str(p) instead of p. The long-term solution is to make all related functions accept a path object.

I'm not an expert in this field, but I believe that if you can make your Path object support the so-called buffer interface, it would be directly usable for functions like open() without an explicit conversion.

Giovanni Bajo

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