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

Nikolaus Rath Nikolaus at rath.org
Sat Apr 9 10:32:28 EDT 2016

On Apr 07 2016, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

On Apr 7, 2016, at 6:48 AM, Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus at rath.org> wrote:

Does anyone anticipate any classes other than those from pathlib to come with such a method? It seems like it would be reasonable for pathlib.Path to call fspath on the path passed to pathlib.Path.init, which would mean that if other libraries implemented fspath then you could pass their path objects to pathlib and it would just work (and similarly, if they also called fspath it would enable interoperation between all of the various path libraries).

Indeed, but my question is: is this actually going to happen? Are there going to be other libraries that will implement fspath, and will there be demand for pathlib to support them?

Best, -Nikolaus

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