[Python-ideas] Better stdlib support for Path objects

[Barry Warsaw]

On Oct 07, 2014, at 02:45 PM, Ed Kellett wrote:

>On 7 October 2014 14:37, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
>> What would __strpath__ do that __str__ wouldn't do?  Or do you think it's
>> better to explicitly disallow str-like objects that aren't path objects?
>
>What is a str-like object? A lot of objects are acceptable to str();
>most of them aren't "str-like" in any reasonable sense of the term
>(e.g. function, int), and probably shouldn't be acceptable as paths.

Sorry, str-able is probably a better term to use in the above.

-Barry
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