[Python-Dev] Pathlib enhancments - method name only (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Fri Apr 8 14:25:25 EDT 2016

On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 at 11:13 Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

On 04/08/2016 10:46 AM, Koos Zevenhoven wrote: > On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 7:42 PM, Chris Barker wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 9:02 AM, Koos Zevenhoven wrote:

>>> I'm still thinking a little bit about 'pathname', which to me sounds >>> more like a string than fspath does. >> >> >> I like that a lot - or even "pathstr" or "pathstring" >> after all, we're making a big deal out of the fact that a path is >> not a string, but rather a string is a representation (or >> serialization) of a path. That's a decent point. So the plausible choices are, I think: - fspath # File System Path -- possible confusion with Path

+1

- fsstr # File System String

-1 Looks like a cat walked across my keyboard or someone trying to come up with a trendy startup name.

- fspathstr # File System Path String -- zero ambiguity, but # what a mouthful

-1 See above.

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