[Python-Dev] Pathlib enhancments - method name only

[Brett Cannon]

On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 at 15:21 Chris Barker - NOAA Federal <
chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:

> > On Apr 8, 2016, at 3:00 PM, Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> >> I personally still like __ospath__ as well.
> >
> > Same here.  The strings are essentially an OS-dependent serialization,
> > rather than related to a particular file system.
>
> Huh? I though the strings were a OS-independent, human readable
> serialization and interchange format.
>

Depends if you use `/` or `\` as your path separator if they are truly
OS-independent. :)

-Brett


>
> Bytes would be the OS-dependent serialization.
>
> But yes, I suppose the file-system-level version would be inodes or
> something.
>
> But this is a string that represents a path, thus __pathstr__. And the
> term "path" is used all over the place (including os.path and pathlib)
> for this particular type of path, so I don't see why we need the "fs"
> or "os", other than the fact that __path__ is already taken.
>
> But I'm looking forward to using this bike shed regardless of its
> color, so that's the last I'll comment on that.
>
> -CHB
>
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