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Sat Nov 8 20:02:23 CET 2014 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-November/136925.html

On Saturday, November 8, 2014, Xavier Morel <python-dev at masklinn.net> wrote:

>
>
> Why would pathlib need to provide this when tempfile already does?
>
>   with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(prefix='') as f:
>       tmp = pathlib.Path(f.name)
>
>   with tempfile.TemporaryDirectoryDirectory(prefix='') as d:
>       tmp = pathlib.Path(d.name)
>
> For the same reason pathlib provides path manipulation functionality while
os.path already does: a cohesive and more convenient api. In other words, I
want to have less calls and variables around (less room for errors, less
visual bloat), and this is such a common pattern it's worth supporting it
in pathlib.

-- 

Thanks,
-- Ionel M.
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