[Python-Dev] When should pathlib stop being provisional?

[Ethan Furman]

On 04/05/2016 10:40 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Ethan Furman writes:
>
>   > No, Stephen, that is not what this is about.
>
> Wrong Steven.  Spelling matters in email too.

Yes, it absolutely does.  My apologies.

> -1 Not good enough.  I wouldn't do it that often that "ugly" overrides
> the reasoning Brett presented [...]

> But we don't object to (de)serializing dicts to (from) str (as JSON or
> pickle).

Amusingly enough, I don't have to deal with serializing dicts.  :) 
However, as a comparison:  imagine you had to transform your dict to 
JSON every time some function wanted a dict as input.  And had to 
transform returned JSON strings in to dicts.

> I think Path vs. string is similarly different to justify
> saying so (especially when treating user input).  [...]
> Thus, strings that look like paths (as strings) actually will have
> multiple internal representations, similarly to the way that a dict
> can have multiple serializations.

I don't follow.  When dealing with the file system one passes a string* 
representing the path of the object one wants -- pretty much the same 
string that was passed in to Path.

--
~Ethan~

* or bytes, but the same sameness, really.