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

Chris Barker - NOAA Federal chris.barker at noaa.gov
Fri Apr 8 18:21:12 EDT 2016

On Apr 8, 2016, at 3:00 PM, Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote: I personally still like ospath as well. Same here. The strings are essentially an OS-dependent serialization, rather than related to a particular file system.

Huh? I though the strings were a OS-independent, human readable serialization and interchange format.

Bytes would be the OS-dependent serialization.

But yes, I suppose the file-system-level version would be inodes or something.

But this is a string that represents a path, thus pathstr. And the term "path" is used all over the place (including os.path and pathlib) for this particular type of path, so I don't see why we need the "fs" or "os", other than the fact that path is already taken.

But I'm looking forward to using this bike shed regardless of its color, so that's the last I'll comment on that.

-CHB

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