Re: [python-committers] 2016 Python Language Summit: Can we get volunteers to talk about pathlib?

2016-04-29 Thread Guido van Rossum
Wait for Brett. On Friday, April 29, 2016, Larry Hastings wrote: > > On 04/29/2016 03:53 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > The primary debate should be about fspath or not. Inheriting from str is > off the table while I'm BDFL. Removing pathlib from the stdlib would only > be on the table if we ca

Re: [python-committers] 2016 Python Language Summit: Can we get volunteers to talk about pathlib?

2016-04-29 Thread Larry Hastings
On 04/29/2016 03:53 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: The primary debate should be about fspath or not. Inheriting from str is off the table while I'm BDFL. Removing pathlib from the stdlib would only be on the table if we can't reach agreement on fspath. WFM. Are there competing proposals for how

Re: [python-committers] 2016 Python Language Summit: Can we get volunteers to talk about pathlib?

2016-04-29 Thread Brett Cannon
PEP has first draft done. Giving Koos and Stephen to comment on it before I post it (I'll give them until Monday). On Fri, Apr 29, 2016, 15:46 Larry Hastings wrote: > > > This month there were over 350 emails in python-dev with the word > "pathlib" in the title. Yet, despite this massive online

Re: [python-committers] 2016 Python Language Summit: Can we get volunteers to talk about pathlib?

2016-04-29 Thread Guido van Rossum
The primary debate should be about fspath or not. Inheriting from str is off the table while I'm BDFL. Removing pathlib from the stdlib would only be on the table if we can't reach agreement on fspath. On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Larry Hastings wrote: > > > This month there were over 350 em

[python-committers] 2016 Python Language Summit: Can we get volunteers to talk about pathlib?

2016-04-29 Thread Larry Hastings
This month there were over 350 emails in python-dev with the word "pathlib" in the title. Yet, despite this massive online debate, nobody volunteered to present about pathlib at the language summit. Based on Jake Edge's summary of the conversation from LWN.net we've boiled down the debate