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Author xmorel
Recipients ascola, eric.smith, paul.j3, rhettinger, xmorel
Date 2020-12-08.08:08:33
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> What exactly do you do with a path argument?

Because they mention "convert[ing] the string to a path", I would expect an output of `pathlib.Path`, optionally checked for existence / non-existence and / or kind (file, directory, symlink, ...).

Obviously it is rather easy to bring your own, but OP's expectation is that paths input is common enough (especially in smaller standalone scripts I would expect) that having a helper in a standard library would be... helpful.
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