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[Python-Dev] Maybe, just maybe, pathlib doesn't belong.

Random832 random832 at fastmail.com
Tue Apr 12 10:59:05 EDT 2016 
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016, at 10:52, Sven R. Kunze wrote:
> On 12.04.2016 00:56, Random832 wrote:
> > Fully general re-dispatch from argument types on any call to a function
> > that raises TypeError or NotImplemented? [e.g. call
> > Path.__missing_func__(os.open, path, mode)]
> >
> > Have pathlib monkey-patch things at import?
> 
> Implicit conversion. No, thanks.

No more so than __radd__ - I didn't actually mean this as a serious
suggestion, but but python *does* already have multiple dispatch.

> > On Mon, Apr 11, 2016, at 17:43, Sven R. Kunze wrote:
> > I don't get what you mean by this whole "different level of abstraction"
> > thing, anyway.
> 
> Strings are strings. Paths are paths. That's were the difference is.

Yes but why aren't these both "things that you may want to use to open a
file"?

> > The fact that there is one obvious thing to want to do
> > with open and a Path strongly suggests that that should be able to be
> > done by passing the Path to open.
> 
> Path(...).open() is your friend then. I don't see why you need os.open.

Because I'm passing it to modfoo.dosomethingwithafile() which takes a
filename and passes it to shutils, which passes it to builtin open,
which passes it to os.open.

Should Path grow a dosomethingwithmodfoo method?
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