New submission from Simon Bernier St-Pierre:
Because of the special way Path and PurePath are instantiated, they can't be
inherited like a normal class. Here's an example of the issue:
>>> import pathlib
>>> class MyPath(pathlib.Path):
... pass
...
>>> p = MyPath('/home')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/pathlib.py", line 969, in __new__
self = cls._from_parts(args, init=False)
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/pathlib.py", line 651, in _from_parts
drv, root, parts = self._parse_args(args)
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/pathlib.py", line 644, in _parse_args
return cls._flavour.parse_parts(parts)
AttributeError: type object 'MyPath' has no attribute '_flavour'
A solution is to get the concrete type of Path via type(Path()) and inherit the
class it yields, but it isn't pretty or intuitive. Perhaps a declaration that
directs to the proper class could be added to the module.
PlatformPath = WindowsPath if os.name == 'nt' else PosixPath
PurePlatformPath = ...
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 298577
nosy: Simon Bernier St-Pierre
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: pathlib: Path and PurePath cannot be subclassed
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.4, Python 3.5, Python 3.6, Python 3.7
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