On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 at 16:25 Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 at 15:22 Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> So I think we need a builtin. > > > > > > Well, the ugliness shouldn't survive forever if the community shifts > over to > > using pathlib while the built-in will. We also don't have a built-in for > > __index__() so it depends on whether we expect this sort of thing to be > the > > purview of library authors or if normal people will be interacting with > it > > (it's probably both during the transition, but I don't know afterwards). > > For __index__ the "built-in" is: > > from operator import index >
Which suggests perhaps we should have pathlib.fspath() instead of a built-in.
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