New submission from Brett Cannon: If you look at the docs for shutil (https://docs.python.org/3/library/shutil.html), you will notice all over it says things like "path names given as strings". The question is whether that statement is true in the face of path-like objects? If it is true then the corresponding function in shutil should be updated to accept path-like objects. If it's false then the docs for the function should be updated.
This is a meta-issue to track working on the overall module (IOW separate PRs to fix things piecemeal is fine). Looks like the following functions need checking/updating: - copyfile - copymode - copystat - copy - copy2 - copytree - rmtree - move - disk_usage - chown - make_archive [ unpack_archive is covered by https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/1367] ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 292788 nosy: brett.cannon priority: normal severity: normal stage: test needed status: open title: Validate shutil supports path-like objects, update docs accordingly type: behavior versions: Python 3.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue30235> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
