# Fixing Subclassing in Pathlib

**URL:** <https://discuss.python.org/t/fixing-subclassing-in-pathlib/8983>\
**Category:** Ideas\
**Created:** [May 28, 2021, 10:48pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/fixing-subclassing-in-pathlib/8983 "2021-05-28T22:48:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Melendowski](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/melendowski/32/2960_2.png) [@Melendowski](https://discuss.python.org/u/Melendowski)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2021, 2:10pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/fixing-subclassing-in-pathlib/8983/4 "2021-05-31T14:10:36Z")

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If you’re going to provide a class decorator, why not just go the route of paramterizing your classes with a required keyword arg from ` __init_subclass__ `?

Require ` __init_subclass__ ` to specify if posix or windows

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