On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 at 22:38 Michael Mysinger via Python-Dev < python-dev@python.org> wrote:
> Ethan Furman <ethan <at> stoneleaf.us> writes: > > > Do we allow bytes to be returned from os.fspath()? If yes, then do we > > allow bytes from __fspath__()? > > De-lurking. Especially since the ultimate goal is better interoperability, > I > feel like an implementation that people can play with would help guide the > few remaining decisions. To help test the various options you could > temporarily add a _allow_bytes=GLOBAL_CONFIG_OPTION default argument to > both > pathlib.__fspath__() and os.fspath(), with distinct configurable defaults > for > each. > > In the spirit of Python 3 I feel like bytes might not be needed in > practice, > but something like this with defaults of False will allow people to easily > test all the various options. > https://gist.github.com/brettcannon/b3719f54715787d54a206bc011869aa1 has the four potential approaches implemented (although it doesn't follow the "separate functions" approach some are proposing and instead goes with the allow_bytes approach I originally proposed).
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