For the specific case of `__file__`, yes, I think that would be too
disruptive. This isn't a function that *consumes* a path -- it's a path
that is consumed by innumerable other modules, most of which aren't under
active maintenance, and a sizable fraction of those would break if this
turned into a Path.

For other situations, you'd have to get specific -- I can't guess which
ones particularly bug you. :-)

On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 6:07 PM Christopher Barker <python...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I really like pathlib.
>
> But for a while is was painful to use, 'cause there was som much code that
> still used strings for paths. That was made a lot better when we introduced
> the __fspath__ protocol, and then updated the standard library to use it
> (everywhere?).
>
> But there are still a few that bug me. For instance:
>
> __file__ is a path represented as a string. It's not too big a deal to
> wrap it in Path(), but it still annoys me.
>
> So: would it be entirely too disruptive to replace these kinds of things
> with Path objects?
>
> -CHB
>
>
>
>
>
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