[Python-Dev] NTPath or WindowsPath? (original) (raw)

Tim Golden mail at timgolden.me.uk
Mon Nov 18 11🔞12 CET 2013

On 18/11/2013 10:08, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:

18.11.13 04:31, Brian Curtin написав(ла):

On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com> wrote:

16.11.13 21:15, Antoine Pitrou написав(ла):

In a (private) discussion about PEP 428 and pathlib, Guido proposed that maybe NTPath should be renamed to WindowsPath, since the name is more likely to stay relevant in the middle term. What do you think?

What about nturl2path, os.name, sysconfig.getschemenames()? What about them? Should nturl2path be renamed to windowsurl2path? Should os.name return "windows" on Windows, and should sysconfig support "windows" scheme name?

I think the answer's fairly obviously "no" for reasons of backwards compatibility. (Although that doesn't rule out aliases if someone felt strongly enough about it).

I don't say that there's no case for trying address the considerable variety of Python & C ways of saying "I'm on Windows" with the core & stdlib. But I do say that whoever makes a case had better be very sure of the impact.

Going forwards, however, I'm happy to see new Python code using "Windows" rather than the size-specific "Win32/64" or the dated and over-specific "NT".

TJG

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