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

Random832 random832 at fastmail.com
Thu Apr 14 09:45:41 EDT 2016

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016, at 09:40, Nick Coghlan wrote:

That's not a new problem though, it already exists if you pass in a mix of bytes and str:

There's also already a solution (regardless of whether you want bytes or str as the result), which is to explicitly coerce all the arguments to the same type:

It'd be nice if that went away. Having to do that makes about as much sense to me as if you had to explicitly coerce an int to a float to add them together. Sure, explicit is better than implicit, but there are limits. You're explicitly calling os.path.join; isn't that explicit enough?

More information about the Python-Dev mailing list