It's been provisional since 3.4. I think if it is still there in 3.6.0 it should be considered no longer provisional. But this may indeed be a test case for the ultimate fate of provisional modules -- should we remove it?
I have to admit I got tired of the discussions and muted them all. Personally I am not worried about the light use (I always expected it would take a long time to get adoption) but I am worried about the hostility towards the module. My last/only comment in the discussion was about there possibly being a dichotomy between people who use Python for scripting and those who use it to write more substantial programs (I'm trying not to judge one group more important than another -- I'm just observing there seem to be these two groups). But I didn't stick around long enough to watch for responses to this idea. Would making it inherit from str cause most hostility to disappear? I'm sure there was a discussion about this when PEP 428 was originally proposed, and I recall I was strongly in the camp of "it should not inherit from str", but unfortunately the PEP has no mention of this discussion or even the stated reason. --Guido On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 3:41 PM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > After a rather extensive discussion on python-ideas about pathlib.PurePath > not inheriting from str, another point that came up was that the use of > pathlib has been rather light. Unfortunately even the stdlib doesn't really > use pathlib because it's currently marked as provisional (or at least that's > why I haven't tried to use it where possible in importlib). > > Do we have a plan of what is required to remove the provisional label from > pathlib? > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
