It's a utility method, so its usefulness derives from being available
everywhere without having to patch it in.
For me what's changed is the introduction of `asyncio.to_thread` and PEP 597
making `pathlib.Path.open` slightly less ergonomic,
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> It opens the file in the main thread, and not asynchronously, but doesn't
the file itself get read in the other thead, asynchronously? And is there
any extra RAM used?
The file could be on an external network drive and so opening it may block the
main thread for seconds:
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with open(the_path
On Sat, Jul 10, 2021 at 09:21:14AM -, Thomas Grainger wrote:
> It's a utility method, so its usefulness derives from being available
> everywhere without having to patch it in.
Don't mistake *convenience* with *usefulness*.
It is convenient to have the functionality in the std lib, especial
