[Python-ideas] URLs/URIs + pathlib.Path + literal syntax = ?

[Michael Selik]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 6:06 PM Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>
wrote:

> Koos Zevenhoven wrote:
> > - Only some URIs (or even URLs) can be reliably distinguished from
> > file paths. However, those that contain '://' could be automatically
> > turned into URI objects by p-strings [or Path(...)].
>
> No, they couldn't. "hello://world" is a perfectly valid unix
> pathname (albeit slightly redundant due to the double slash).
> I would not want Path() deciding that I really meant it to
> be a URI.
>
>
Good point. Even worse:

    $ mkdir ftp://www.example.com
    $ tree
    .
    └── ftp:/
        └── www.example.com/

    2 directories, 0 files
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