[Python-Dev] PEP 428 - pathlib (original) (raw)

[Python-Dev] PEP 428 - pathlib - ready for approval

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Thu Nov 21 16:46:48 CET 2013

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:

On 20/11/2013 22:01, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

pathlib imports many modules at startup, so for scripts for which startup time is critical using os.path may still be the best option. Will there be or is there a note to this effect in the docs?

Could be a comment in the source but it should not be in the docs. Only python-dev would care about this and actual users shouldn't over-optimize and avoid pathlib because it imports stuff. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20131121/3ebe2ba0/attachment.html>

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