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

Michael Mysinger cybersol at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 13 01:37:01 EDT 2016

Ethan Furman <ethan stoneleaf.us> writes:

Do we allow bytes to be returned from os.fspath()? If yes, then do we allow bytes from fspath()?

De-lurking. Especially since the ultimate goal is better interoperability, I feel like an implementation that people can play with would help guide the few remaining decisions. To help test the various options you could temporarily add a _allow_bytes=GLOBAL_CONFIG_OPTION default argument to both pathlib.fspath() and os.fspath(), with distinct configurable defaults for each.

In the spirit of Python 3 I feel like bytes might not be needed in practice, but something like this with defaults of False will allow people to easily test all the various options.

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