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Author paul.j3
Recipients ascola, eric.smith, paul.j3, rhettinger, xmorel
Date 2020-12-08.18:12:29
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The pathlib.Path is new since I paid much attention to os matters (I cut my teeth on py2.5).

Off hand it looks like the user could

    import pathlib
    parser.add_argument('-p', type=pathlib.Path)

to convert a string into a Path object.

A custom type function could call this, and apply any desired methods before returning the Path object. But that should be up to the user, not the `argparse` developers.

Importing path specific modules such as pathlib (which in turn has a lot of imports) goes against the attempt to reduce the number of unnecessary imports with modules like argparse.

https://bugs.python.org/issue30152
Reduce the number of imports for argparse

After this diet argparse still imports os, and uses:

    os.path.basename

I might also note that argparse has only one custom 'type' function, the FileType factory.  Other common type functions like 'int' and 'float' are Python builtin's.  Adding a custom 'bool' (to be used instead of the builtin 'bool') has been rejected.

https://bugs.python.org/issue37564

json, yaml, and datetime types have also been rejected
https://bugs.python.org/issue35005
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