On 04/13/2016 09:58 AM, Brett Cannon wrote:> On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 at
09:19 Fred Drake wrote:
>> I do the same, but... this is one of those cases where a caller will
>> usually be passing a constant directly. If passed as a positional
>> argument, it'll just be confusing ("what's True?" is my usual
>> reaction to a Boolean positional argument).
>
> It would be keyword-only so this isn't even a possibility.
>
>> If passed as a keyword argument
>> with a descriptive name, it'll be longer than I'd like to see:
>>
>> path_str = os.fspath(path, allow_bytes=True)
>
> I think the expectation that the number of people actually directly
> calling this function with that argument specified is going to be
> rather small, so the common-case will simply be:
>
> path_str = os.fspath(path)
That is certainly my expectation. :)
>> Names like os.fspath() and os.fssyspath() seem good to me.
A single function is definitely my preference, but if that's not
possible then I'm fine with that pair of names.
--
~Ethan~
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