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

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Thu May 12 13:27:21 EDT 2016


On 05/12/2016 10:21 AM, Sven R. Kunze wrote:

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?

Maybe, but a bad idea for two reasons:

  1. Reducing a str to the exact same str is silly; and, more importantly
  2. not every str/bytes is a path

-- Ethan



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