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

Serhiy Storchaka storchaka at gmail.com
Wed Apr 6 01:28:29 EDT 2016

On 06.04.16 01:41, Brett Cannon wrote:

After a rather extensive discussion on python-ideas about pathlib.PurePath not inheriting from str, another point that came up was that the use of pathlib has been rather light. Unfortunately even the stdlib doesn't really use pathlib because it's currently marked as provisional (or at least that's why I haven't tried to use it where possible in importlib).

Do we have a plan of what is required to remove the provisional label from pathlib?

The behavior of the Path.resolve() method likely should be changed with breaking backward compatibility. There is an open issue about this.

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