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

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Mon Apr 18 15:50:56 EDT 2016

On 04/18/2016 12:25 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

Koos Zevenhoven writes:

After all, we want something that's almost exclusively str. But we don't want that, AFAICT. Some clearly want this API to be unbiased against bytes in the same way the os APIs are unbiased[2], because that's what we've got in the current proposal.

Are we reading the same thread? For my last several replies I am very biased against bytes (and I know I'm not the only one).

Just not so biased that I'm unwilling to let clients say, "No, I'm really okay with getting bytes back".

I really like Koos' ideas because they allow the client to say:

If the client says "I'm okay with either" then I fully expect the client to have code to properly handle str vs bytes after the fspath (or whatever it's called) call.

-- Ethan

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