It's been brought up a few times eg:
https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/12465
but I really think it's time to be re-considered.
Specifically I love being able to use
`asyncio.to_thread(pathlib.Path(...).read_text, encoding="utf8")` It does
exactly the right thing for me! It's great because it interacts with the event
loop as few times as possible and uses only the RAM absolutely required.
I'm looking to be able to do something like
`asyncio.to_thread(pathlib.Path(...).json)`
defined as:
```python
def json(self):
import json
with self.open("rb") as f:
return json.load(f)
```
while this may seem simple to implement in my own code it handles a lot of
stuff for me!, Specifically PEP 538, minimal interactions with the asyncio
waker pipe, the minimal amount of ram, etc etc.
You might ask - if json why not .html() and .xml() and .csv() ? Well each of
these formats require specific configuration - eg do you want defused or
regular exploding xml? Do you want excel style CSV or GNU style CSV? AFAIK json
is the only format with a one shot zeroconf bytes -> structure format, and so
makes it worthy of the pathlib shortcut.
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