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

Christophe Bal projetmbc at gmail.com
Thu Apr 7 01:24:42 EDT 2016

As a simple user, pathlib simplifies playing with paths. A lot of things are easy to do. For example, Pathlib / "subfile" is so useful.

I also have a subclass of pathlib.Path on github that makes easy seeking for files and directories.

So keep alive pathlib ! Le 6 avr. 2016 13:06, "Paul Moore" <p.f.moore at gmail.com> a écrit :

On 6 April 2016 at 00:45, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

This does sound like it's the crucial issue, and it is worth writing up clearly the pros and cons. Let's draft those lists in a thread (this one's fine) and then add them to the PEP. We can then decide to:

- keep the status quo - change PurePath to inherit from str - decide it's never going to be settled and kill pathlib.py (And yes, I'm dead serious about the latter, rather Solomonic option.)

By the way, even if there's no solution that satisfies everyone to the "inherit from str" question, I'd still be unhappy if pathlib disappeared from the stdlib. It's useful for quick admin scripts that don't justify an external dependency. Those typically do quite a bit of path manipulation, and as such benefit from the improved API of pathlib over os.path.

+1 on making (and documenting) a final decision on the "inherit from str" question -1 on removing pathlib just because that decision might not satisfy everyone

Paul

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