[Python-Dev] file system path protocol PEP (original) (raw)

Koos Zevenhoven k7hoven at gmail.com
Thu May 12 08:40:21 EDT 2016

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 3:04 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

I'd still like to see this exposed to Python code as os.rawfspath() (with the leading underscore just meaning "this probably isn't the API you want" rather than indicating a private or unstable API), and then fspath() defined as a wrapper around it which disallows bytes as output.

I don't remember (should probably check) if you previously proposed implementing exactly that in C, but I indeed agree with what you write above, except that I don't like the "raw" prefix in the name. I would be willing to call that simply fspath though, since as mentioned before in this thread (I think by Brett and me), the reasons for rejecting bytes in fspath are really quite minor.

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