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

Donald Stufft donald at stufft.io
Sun Apr 10 11:50:24 EDT 2016

On Apr 10, 2016, at 2:43 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

This does raise a concrete API design question: how should PurePath.fspath behave when called on a mismatched OS?

I think that PurePath.fspath should return a string. There’s no reason why we can’t in my opinion and doing so just limits the usefulness of the method. For instance, it’d prevent it from being possible to serialize a pure windows path and send it over the wire to a process running on a Windows machine, like say if you have a build master running on Linux and a build slave running on Windows.

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