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[Python-Dev] Pathlib enhancments - method name only

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Fri Apr 8 15:24:44 EDT 2016 
On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 at 12:10 Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 5:03 AM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 11:34 AM, Koos Zevenhoven <k7hoven at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> > __pathstr__ # pathstring
> >> >
> >>
> >> Or perhaps __pathstring__ in case it may be or return byte strings.
> >
> >
> > I'm fine with __pathstring__ , but I thought it was already decided that
> it
> > would NOT return a bytestring!
>
> I sincerely hope that's been settled on. There's no reason to have
> this ever return anything other than a str. (Famous last words, I
> know.)
>

It has been settled: pathlib.Path itself won't accept bytes anyway so
there's no reason to expect this to ever return anything but str.
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