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

Chris Barker chris.barker at noaa.gov
Tue Apr 12 12:04:21 EDT 2016 
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 7:54 AM, Sven R. Kunze <srkunze at mail.de> wrote:

>
> My conclusion is that these changes are not optional and tweaking os, io
> and shutil is just yet another workaround for a clean solution. :)
>

Is the clean solution to re-implement EVERYTHING in the stdlib that
involves a path in a new, fancy pathlib way?

If we were starting from scratch, I _might_ like that idea, but we're not
starting from scratch. And that would cement in pathlib itself, leaving no
room for other path implementations. kind of like how the pre-__Index__
python cemented in python integers as the only objects once could use to
index a sequence.

-CHB



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