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

Sven R. Kunze srkunze at mail.de
Thu May 12 13:21:45 EDT 2016


On 12.05.2016 18:56, Ethan Furman wrote:

On 05/12/2016 09:26 AM, Sven R. Kunze wrote:

str and bytes will receive the fspath attribute when this PEP is accepted? No, they won't. The fspath protocol will reduce the rich path object down to a str/bytes object.

Would this make the implementation of os.fspath simpler?

After all, str and bytes are to some extend path-like objects.

Best, Sven



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