[Python-Dev] Pathlib enhancments - method name only

[Greg Ewing]

Nick Coghlan wrote:
> Similar to my proposal for dealing with DirEntry.path being a
> bytes-like object, I'd like to suggest raising TypeError in __fspath__
> if the request is nonsensical for the currently running system - *nix
> systems can *manipulate* Windows paths (and vice-versa), but actually
> trying to *use* them with the local filesystem isn't going to work
> properly, since the syntax and semantics are different.

That sounds reasonable, since it would be preferable to
fail early if you mistakenly pass a PureWindowsPath to
e.g. open().

But there needs to be some way to ask a path object for
its native string representation, otherwise there would
be no point in using foreign path objects at all.

-- 
Greg