On 04/05/2016 07:40 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 11:47:32PM +0000, Brett Cannon wrote:
To me it seems to basically be a question of whether people can be patient
during a transition and embrace pathlib over time or if they will simply
refuse to add support in libraries and refuse to use `getattr(path, 'path',
path)` or `str(path)` in the mean time.
Wait, what? Is that what the whole fuss is about? That some people
refuse to call str(path) when passing a path object to a function that
expects a string?
No, Stephen, that is not what this is about. This is about the ugliness
of code with str(path) this and str(path) that and let's not forget the
Path(this_returned_string) and Path(that_returned_string), not to
mention the frustrations of forgetting to cast a str to Path or a Path
to str. It's about the horror of boiler-plate infecting our otherwise
beautiful Python code.
--
~Ethan~
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