[Python-Dev] Removing the provisional label from pathlib (original) (raw)

Koos Zevenhoven k7hoven at gmail.com
Tue May 24 07:03:34 EDT 2016

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 10:38 PM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 10:13 AM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

3.5 is still getting bugfixes: https://docs.python.org/devguide/#status-of-python-branches As for backporting fspath() for pathlib, you can easily write your own subclass that adds it. And since the stdlib won't be updated in 3.5 for consumption of fspath OK -- when I said "it", I meant the whole shebang -- i.e. the stdlib stuff too. But fair enough, we can't be backporting everything, and I that would be touching a lot of the lib. -CHB

I guess we might consider adding fspath in maintenance releases, and make open() support it? That would cover a significant share of use cases, although it might be weird if code written for 3.5.2 doesn't run on 3.5.1... So maybe just 3.6-> ?

I'm not quite as busy as last week, so I might consider working on the stdlib changes if I find the time. Or is someone already working on this?

-- Koos

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