Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka+cpyt...@gmail.com> added the comment:
Are there any problems with converting a Path to string before adding it to sys.path? You do this one time, and any users of sys.path will not need to bother about conversion. It is better even for performance. Otherwise we will need to revise and update every code that uses sys.path, and many bugs will left in third-party code for years. For example, in unittest the code if not top_level_dir in sys.path: sys.path.insert(0, top_level_dir) should be replaced with more cumbersome for path in sys.path: if os.fsdecode(path) == top_level_dir: break else: sys.path.insert(0, top_level_dir) In multiprocessing the code sys_path=sys.path.copy() try: i = sys_path.index('') except ValueError: pass else: sys_path[i] = process.ORIGINAL_DIR should be replaced with sys_path=sys.path.copy() for i, path in enumerate(sys_path): if os.fsdecode(path) == '': sys_path[i] = process.ORIGINAL_DIR break It is just two examples. I did not review the whole stdlib, and there should be more third-party code. ---------- nosy: +serhiy.storchaka _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue32642> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com