[Python-Dev] Defining a path protocol (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Wed Apr 6 16:28:02 EDT 2016

On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 at 13:20 Sven R. Kunze <srkunze at mail.de> wrote:

On 06.04.2016 21:02, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote: _+1 for path, +0 for fspath_Â (I don't know how widespread the notion that "fs" means "file system" is).

Same here. In the good old days, "fs" stood for a "Font Server."  And in even older (and better?) days, FS was a "Field Separator." The future is not the past. ;) What about filepath

Can be a directory as well (and you could argue semantics of file system inodes, beginners won't know the subtlety and/or wonder where dir_path is). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20160406/62a41d2a/attachment.html>

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