[Python-Dev] pathlib - current status of discussions

[Donald Stufft]

> On Apr 14, 2016, at 11:59 AM, Michael Mysinger via Python-Dev <python-dev at python.org> wrote:
> 
> In essence, you will force me to pre-
> wrap all RichPath objects in either os.fsencode(os.fspath(path)) or
> os.fsdecode(os.fspath(path)), just so I can reason about the type.


This is only the case if you have a singular RichPath object that can represent both bytes and str (which is what DirEntry does, which I agree makes it harder… but that’s already the case with DirEntry.path). However that’s not the case if you have a bRichPath and uRichPath.

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