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

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Wed Apr 13 12:41:11 EDT 2016


On 13 April 2016 at 17:31, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

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.

Oh, wait, yes fssyspath is for allow_bytes=True which may be bytes, but could still be a string. My mistake. On that basis, I could go with fssyspath (thinking "sys" = "low level").

Paul



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