[Python-Dev] When should pathlib stop being provisional? (original) (raw)

Alexander Walters tritium-list at sdamon.com
Tue Apr 5 23:06:36 EDT 2016

On 4/5/2016 22:44, Nick Coghlan wrote:

Option 4: define a rich-object-to-text path serialisation convention, as paths are not conceptually the same as arbitrary strings Just as a nit to pick, it is perfectly acceptable for hypothetical path objects to raise when someone tries to shoehorn them into acting like arbitrary strings - open() will gladly halt and set fire if you try and pass the text of war and peace as an argument.

I think the naysayers would be satisfied with an object that... while not str or bytes or a derived class of either... acted like str when it had to. Is that possible without deriving from str or bytes?

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