On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 7:53 PM, Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.ma...@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> wrote: > > Ah, sorry, I misunderstood what you were trying to say, but now I'm getting > it! subclasses of str and bytes were of course usable as path arguments > before simply because they were subclasses of them. Now they would be picked > up based on their __fspath__ method, but old versions of Python executing > code using them would still use them directly. Have to think about this one > a bit, but thanks for pointing it out. >
Yes, this is exactly what I meant. I noticed I had left out some of the details of the reasoning, sorry. I tried to fix that in my response to Steven. — Koos -- + Koos Zevenhoven + http://twitter.com/k7hoven + _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
