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[Python-Dev] Is adding support for os.PathLike an enhancement or bugfix?

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Wed May 3 18:25:55 EDT 2017 
If you start to backport support for the fspath protocol, be prepared
to have to backport it *many* places. I expect that slowly in the near
future, many functions will be patched to support the fspath protocol.

I suggest to only do that in master. It's not that hard to cast
manually to a string: it's just str(path), no?

Victor

2017-05-03 20:15 GMT+02:00 Brett Cannon <brett at python.org>:
> My allergies have hit me hard so I'm not thinking at full capacity, but did
> we ever decide if supporting os.PathLike in the stdlib was viewed as an
> enhancement or bugfix? Specifically I'm thinking of
> https://bugs.python.org/issue30218 for adding support to
> shutil.unpack_archive() and whether it should be backported to 3.6.
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