Nick Coghlan wrote:
Similar to my proposal for dealing with DirEntry.path being a bytes-like object, I'd like to suggest raising TypeError in __fspath__ if the request is nonsensical for the currently running system - *nix systems can *manipulate* Windows paths (and vice-versa), but actually trying to *use* them with the local filesystem isn't going to work properly, since the syntax and semantics are different.
That sounds reasonable, since it would be preferable to fail early if you mistakenly pass a PureWindowsPath to e.g. open(). But there needs to be some way to ask a path object for its native string representation, otherwise there would be no point in using foreign path objects at all. -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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
