[Python-Dev] Pathlib enhancements - acceptable inputs and outputs for fspath and os.fspath() (original) (raw)

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Wed Apr 13 12:31:32 EDT 2016


On 04/13/2016 09:27 AM, Paul Moore wrote:

On 13 April 2016 at 17:18, Fred Drake wrote:

Names like os.fspath() and os.fssyspath() seem good to me. -1 on fssyspath - the "system" representation is bytes on POSIX, but not on Windows. Let's be explicit and go with fsbytespath().

It will be confusing that fsbytespath() can return a string.

-- Ethan



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