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Sat Apr 9 06:37:23 EDT 2016 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2016-April/143843.html

On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 9:09 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 5:03 AM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 11:34 AM, Koos Zevenhoven <k7hoven at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> > __pathstr__ # pathstring
> >> >
> >>
> >> Or perhaps __pathstring__ in case it may be or return byte strings.
> >
> >
> > I'm fine with __pathstring__ , but I thought it was already decided that
> it
> > would NOT return a bytestring!
>
> I sincerely hope that's been settled on. There's no reason to have
> this ever return anything other than a str. (Famous last words, I
> know.)
>
> ChrisA
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I'm kind of scared about this: scared to state and be 100% sure that bytes
won't *never ever* be returned.
As such I would call this __fspath__ or something, but I would definitively
avoid to use "str".

-- 
Giampaolo - http://grodola.blogspot.com
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[Python-Dev] Pathlib enhancments - method name only