[Python-ideas] PEP 428 - object-oriented filesystem paths

Mike Graham mikegraham at gmail.com
Fri Oct 5 21:23:57 CEST 2012


On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> This PEP is a resurrection of the idea of having object-oriented
> filesystem paths in the stdlib. It comes with a general API proposal
> as well as a specific implementation (*). The implementation is young
> and discussion is quite open.
>
> (*) http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pathlib/
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.

The os.path approach probably isn't the best, but it does work pretty
well in practice. I'm not sure I see the benefit of introducing
something new.

Mike



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