Feature or enhancement
Proposal:
#83066 considered making os.Pathlike a protocol, but rejected the idea due to not wanting to import typing into os.py.
As an alternative, I propose making more it more protocol-like in two ways:
- add it to typing._PROTO_ALLOWLIST so it can be used as a base class in other protocols
- use
class PathLike(metaclass=abc.ABCMeta) instead of class PathLike(abc.ABC). This aligns with the other protocol-like ABCs in collections.abc. Actual protocols do have that metaclass but don't have the abc.ABC base class. Doing this makes it a little smoother for typeshed to define the class as class PathLike(Protocol) in the stubs.
Has this already been discussed elsewhere?
This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere
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Feature or enhancement
Proposal:
#83066 considered making
os.Pathlikea protocol, but rejected the idea due to not wanting to import typing into os.py.As an alternative, I propose making more it more protocol-like in two ways:
class PathLike(metaclass=abc.ABCMeta)instead ofclass PathLike(abc.ABC). This aligns with the other protocol-like ABCs incollections.abc. Actual protocols do have that metaclass but don't have theabc.ABCbase class. Doing this makes it a little smoother for typeshed to define the class asclass PathLike(Protocol)in the stubs.Has this already been discussed elsewhere?
This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere
Links to previous discussion of this feature:
No response
Linked PRs