[Python-Dev] Pathlib enhancments - method name only (original) (raw)
Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Apr 10 03:12:18 EDT 2016
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Nick Coghlan wrote:
Similar to my proposal for dealing with DirEntry.path being a bytes-like object, I'd like to suggest raising TypeError in fspath if the request is nonsensical for the currently running system - *nix systems can manipulate Windows paths (and vice-versa), but actually trying to use them with the local filesystem isn't going to work properly, since the syntax and semantics are different.
That sounds reasonable, since it would be preferable to fail early if you mistakenly pass a PureWindowsPath to e.g. open().
But there needs to be some way to ask a path object for its native string representation, otherwise there would be no point in using foreign path objects at all.
-- Greg
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