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

Antoine Pitrou antoine at python.org
Wed Apr 13 14:25:52 EDT 2016

Brett Cannon <brett python.org> writes:

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). 

Either number 1 or number 3 for me (I don't think bytes path-like objects are useful in Python).

Regards

Antoine.

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