[Python-Dev] Defining a path protocol

[Brett Cannon]

On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 at 12:38 Oleg Broytman <phd at phdru.name> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 11:54:08AM -0700, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us>
> wrote:
> > On 04/06/2016 11:32 AM, Brett Cannon wrote:
> > >On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 at 11:06 Ethan Furman wrote:
> > >>On 04/06/2016 10:26 AM, Brett Cannon wrote:
> >
> > >>>Now we need clear details. :) Some open questions are:
> > >>>
> > >>> 1. Name: __path__, __fspath__, or something else?
> > >>
> > >>__fspath__
> > >
> > >+1 for __path__, +0 for __fspath__ (I don't know how widespread the
> > >notion that "fs" means "file system" is).
> >
> > Maybe __os_path__ then?  I would rather be explicit about the type of
> path
> > we are dealing with -- who knows if we won't have __url_path__ in the
> future
> > (besides Guido, of course ;)
>
>    __pathstr__? __urlstr__?
>

But we didn't call it __indexint__ either. No need to embed the type in the
name.

-Brett


>
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