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

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Wed Apr 13 13:10:09 EDT 2016

On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 at 22:38 Michael Mysinger via Python-Dev < python-dev at python.org> wrote:

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 allowbytes=GLOBALCONFIGOPTION 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.

https://gist.github.com/brettcannon/b3719f54715787d54a206bc011869aa1 has the four potential approaches implemented (although it doesn't follow the "separate functions" approach some are proposing and instead goes with the allow_bytes approach I originally proposed). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20160413/db073749/attachment.html>

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