On Sat, 09 Apr 2016 17:48:38 +1000, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 9 April 2016 at 04:25, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 at 11:13 Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > >> On 04/08/2016 10:46 AM, Koos Zevenhoven wrote: > >> > On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 7:42 PM, Chris Barker wrote: > >> >> On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 9:02 AM, Koos Zevenhoven wrote: > >> > >> >>> I'm still thinking a little bit about 'pathname', which to me sounds > >> >>> more like a string than fspath does. > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> I like that a lot - or even "__pathstr__" or "__pathstring__" > >> >> after all, we're making a big deal out of the fact that a path is > >> >> *not a string*, but rather a string is a *representation* (or > >> >> serialization) of a path. > >> > >> That's a decent point. > >> > >> So the plausible choices are, I think: > >> > >> - __fspath__ # File System Path -- possible confusion with Path > > > > +1 > > I like __fspath__, but I'm also sympathetic to Koos' point that we're > really dealing with path *names* being produced via this protocol, > rather than the paths themselves. > > That would bring the completely explicit "__fspathname__" into the > mix, which would be comparable in length to "__getattribute__" as a > magic method name (both in terms of number of syllable and number of > characters).
I'm not going to vote -1, but for the record I have no real intuition as to what a "path name" would be. An arbitrary identifier that we're using to refer to an os path? That is, a 'filename' is the identifier we've assigned to this thing pointed to by an inode in linux, but an os path is a text representation of the path from the root filename to a specified filename. That is, the path *is* the name, so to say "path name" sounds redundant and confusing to me. --David _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
