Make pathlib extensible

[barneygale]

It’s a very good thought, and was briefly covered earlier (easy to miss in this long thread):

Make pathlib extensible

For my fellow visual learners, here’s a venn diagram showing os.PathLike and pathlib.PathBase: [image]

pathlib._PathBase won’t be os.PathLike by default for all the reasons you mentioned. It would be a catastrophe if open(ZipPath('README.rst', zipfile=blah)) silently opened a file called README.rst on the local filesystem.