[Python-Dev] pathlib - current status of discussions (original) (raw)

Chris Barker chris.barker at noaa.gov
Tue Apr 12 12:40:00 EDT 2016

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Koos Zevenhoven <k7hoven at gmail.com> wrote:

> 1) A "proper" path object -- i.e. pathlib.Path or anything else that > supports the path protocol. > > 2) the bytes that the OS actually needs. >

You do have a point there. But since bytes pathnames are deprecated on windows,

Ah -- there's the fatal flaw -- even Windows needs bytes at the lowest level, but the decision was already made there to use str as the the lingua-franca -- i.e. the user NEVER sees a path as a bytestring on Windows? I guess that's decided then. str is the exchange format.

-CHB

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