[Python-ideas] Working with Path objects: p-strings?

[Paul Moore]

Bah, unexpected keyboard shortcut - sorry for the premature send...

On 29 March 2016 at 13:10, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> However, it does mean that certain use cases are not supported by
> pathlib. One of the constant issues with core/stdlib development is
> having to consider how the design affects people with needs you don't
> personally have. This one's not such a big problem "pathlib doesn't
> support non-Unicode filenames" is a simple enough to express
> limitation. But that doesn't help the poor guy debugging an issue with
> his filesystem-scanning program where a user has a mangled non-Unicode
> filename somewhere in the bowels of his profile - does he declare that
> user's situation is unsupported, or does he abandon pathlib in favour
> of the old os APIs? (And if the , what's the likelihood

(And either way, what's the likelihood of him ever wanting to use
pathlib again?)

Paul