If you start to backport support for the fspath protocol, be prepared to have to backport it *many* places. I expect that slowly in the near future, many functions will be patched to support the fspath protocol.
I suggest to only do that in master. It's not that hard to cast manually to a string: it's just str(path), no? Victor 2017-05-03 20:15 GMT+02:00 Brett Cannon <br...@python.org>: > My allergies have hit me hard so I'm not thinking at full capacity, but did > we ever decide if supporting os.PathLike in the stdlib was viewed as an > enhancement or bugfix? Specifically I'm thinking of > https://bugs.python.org/issue30218 for adding support to > shutil.unpack_archive() and whether it should be backported to 3.6. > > _______________________________________________ > 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/victor.stinner%40gmail.com > _______________________________________________ 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
