On 8/24/2018 5:28 AM, Paul Moore wrote:
On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 at 09:57, Torsten Bronger
<bron...@physik.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
Hallöchen!
Path-like objects are accepted by all path-processing functions in
the standard library since Python 3.6. Unfortunately, this is not
made explicit everywhere. In particular, if I pass a Path in the
first argument of subprocess.run, do I use an implementation detail
of CPython? Because on
https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/subprocess.html, only for the
cwd argument the acceptance of Paths is stated explicitly.
The same goes for all functions in the shutil module.
https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/shutil.html does not mention the
path-like protocol anywhere, but the CPython modules seem to accept
them anyway.
I would imagine that doc fixes would be gratefully accepted. Or if
they are rejected, that rejection would be confirmation that the
support is intended as an implementation detail (and a fix to the
documentation to explicitly state that would be reasonable).
Personally, I'd expect that the intention is that you can rely on it.
Paul
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