[Python-ideas] `to_file()` method for strings

[Nick Coghlan]

On 23 March 2016 at 15:44, Nick Eubank <nickeubank at gmail.com> wrote:
> True -- my feeling is that if we're ok with defaults in a pathlib method,
> why not put them in a string method?

pathlib is explicitly about filesytem management and manipulation,
while strings don't inherently have anything to do with filesystems,
and only a little bit to do with serialisation (via str.encode).

Having some lower level convenience functions in io may make sense
(specifically io.write_bytes(path, data) and io.write_text(path, data,
encoding=None, errors=None), but the str builtin definitely isn't the
right place for the capability.

Cheers,
Nick.

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