[issue43213] Shortcut for checking if PurePath object contains str

[Tomas Gustavsson]

Tomas Gustavsson <tomplast at gmail.com> added the comment:

Sorry Serhiy, missed your answer there. I understand your point. I guess
I'll have to look for other things to help with :)

Thank you for the answer.

Guess this can be closed then.

Best regards
Tomas

On Sat, 13 Feb 2021, 12:57 Serhiy Storchaka <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:

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> Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka+cpython at gmail.com> added the comment:
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> Path is not string, and it was made not string-like intentionally.
> Otherwise it would be made a subclass of str.
>
> If you want to check whether a string is a substring of the string
> representation of the path, just do it explicitly: 'share' in str(path).
> But in most cases it is not what the user intended.
>
> There were several propositions about implementing "in" (and iteration,
> these operations are related and should be consistent). The problem is that
> there several different meaning of that operation. Should it check that the
> directory referred by the path contains the specified file name? Or that
> the path contains the specified path component? Or that one path is a
> subpath of other path? Or that the specified string is a substring of the
> string representation of the path? (The latter proposition is the least
> useful.) It is better to avoid ambiguity, so all these proposition were
> rejected.
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