Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > The support of **kwargs in Path.__new__ is needed if you want to implement a > subclass of Path with __init__ accepting keyword arguments
I don't remember exactly, but I think this was the intention indeed. There was originally an openat-using subclass, and IIRC it took additional parameters (such as the directory fd). That got scrapped quite early in the process, so we can remove the **kwargs thing now. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue29847> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
