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

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Wed Apr 6 19:26:58 EDT 2016

On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 at 16:25 Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote: > > > On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 at 15:22 Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> So I think we need a builtin. > > > Well, the ugliness shouldn't survive forever if the community shifts over to > using pathlib while the built-in will. We also don't have a built-in for > index() so it depends on whether we expect this sort of thing to be the > purview of library authors or if normal people will be interacting with it > (it's probably both during the transition, but I don't know afterwards).

For index the "built-in" is: from operator import index

Which suggests perhaps we should have pathlib.fspath() instead of a built-in. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20160406/00aee815/attachment.html>

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