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

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Wed Apr 6 17:03:55 EDT 2016

On 04/06/2016 01:47 PM, Sven R. Kunze wrote:

I still cannot remember what the concrete issue was why we dropped pathlib the same day we gave it a try. It was something really stupid and although I hoped to reduce the size of the code, it was less readable. But it was not the path->str issue but something more mundane. It was something that forced us to use os[.path] as Path didn't provide something equivalent. Cannot remember.....

I'm willing to guess that if you had been able to just call

os.whatever(your_path_obj)

it would have been at most a minor annoyance.

-- Ethan

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