[Python-Dev] Is adding support for os.PathLike an enhancement or bugfix?

[Berker Peksağ]

On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 9:15 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> My allergies have hit me hard so I'm not thinking at full capacity, but did
> we ever decide if supporting os.PathLike in the stdlib was viewed as an
> enhancement or bugfix? Specifically I'm thinking of
> https://bugs.python.org/issue30218 for adding support to
> shutil.unpack_archive() and whether it should be backported to 3.6.

We've already backported a few patches that improves the PEP 519
support in the stdlib with the permission from the release manager of
3.6. I'd ask Ned whether bpo-30218 qualifies for backporting to 3.6.

--Berker