[Python-Dev] When should pathlib stop being provisional? (original) (raw)
Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Apr 5 19:45:50 EDT 2016
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On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 4:13 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 9:08 AM, Alexander Walters <tritium-list at sdamon.com> wrote:
* pathlib should be improved (specifically by making it inherit from str) I'd like to see this specific change settled on in the PEP, actually. There are some arguments on both sides, and some hybrid solutions being proposed, and it looks to be an important enough issue to people for there to be an answer somewhere. It seems to come down to a sloppiness vs strictness concern, I think, but I'm not sure.
This does sound like it's the crucial issue, and it is worth writing up clearly the pros and cons. Let's draft those lists in a thread (this one's fine) and then add them to the PEP. We can then decide to:
- keep the status quo
- change PurePath to inherit from str
- decide it's never going to be settled and kill pathlib.py
(And yes, I'm dead serious about the latter, rather Solomonic option.)
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