Christopher Welborn added the comment: Antoine said: > I would suggest differently: > - read_text(encoding, errors, newline) > - read_bytes() > - write_text(data, encoding, errors, newline) > - write_bytes(data) > > Strictly speaking, write() could be polymorphic, but I think it's nice > to have distinct methods 1) out of symmetry with read*() 2) to avoid > silently accepting the wrong type.
I am starting to see where you are going with this, and I agree with your latest points. I dropped readlines/writelines. I guess pathlib doesn't have to do *exactly* everything you can do through normal io. They are easy to implement anyway with .split() and .join(). I realize this would not make it into Python for a while (3.5 possibly, if at all), but I went ahead and made a patch anyway because I have time to do so at the moment. I updated the tests to reflect the latest changes, and made sure all of them still pass. Any criticism/wisdom would be appreciated, as this is my first time dealing with the Python patch process. The api is what you have, except I put an 'append' option: read_bytes() read_text(encoding=None, errors=None, newline=None) write_bytes(data, append=False) write_text(data, encoding=None, errors=None, newline=None, append=False) ---------- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file33670/pathlib.readwrite3.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20218> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com