Allow adding Path or str to Path

[gerritholl]

BPO	21798
Nosy	@pitrou, @ericvsmith, @bitdancer, @gerritholl

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closed_at = <Date 2014-06-18.17:39:25.968>
created_at = <Date 2014-06-17.21:10:40.696>
labels = ['type-feature', 'library']
title = 'Allow adding Path or str to Path'
updated_at = <Date 2014-06-18.17:39:25.967>
user = 'https://github.com/gerritholl'

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creation = <Date 2014-06-17.21:10:40.696>
creator = 'Gerrit.Holl'
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priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'rejected'
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status = 'closed'
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type = 'enhancement'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue21798'
versions = ['Python 3.4']

[gerritholl]

It would be great if we could "add" either str or Path to Path objects. Currently, we can join paths only by adding a directory, or by replacing the suffix. But sometimes we want to build up a path more directly. With strings we can do that simply by concatenating strings. It would be great if we could do the same with Path objects, like this:

In [2]: b = pathlib.Path("/tmp/some_base")

In [3]: b + "_name.dat"
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-3-939467ea0aa5> in <module>()
----> 1 b + "_name.dat"

TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'PosixPath' and 'str'

In [4]: b + pathlib.Path("_name.dat")
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-4-460bf8ac7710> in <module>()
----> 1 b + pathlib.Path("_name.dat")

TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'PosixPath' and 'PosixPath'

In [11]: b.with_name(b.name + "_name.dat") # desired effect
Out[11]: PosixPath('/tmp/some_base_name.dat')

[bitdancer]

I would expect addition to return PosixPath('/tmp/some_base/_name.dat'), (ie: path.join).

[ericvsmith]

I agree with David. And, it already works, but uses '/', not '+':

>>> b / "_name.dat"
PosixPath('/tmp/some_base/_name.dat')

-1 to using + to be the equivalent of:

>>> pathlib.Path(str(b) + "_name.dat")
PosixPath('/tmp/some_base_name.dat')

[pitrou]

Indeed, not trying to pretend to act like a string was one of the design points of the pathlib module, and the "/" operator already performs logical path joining. I'm therefore closing this issue as rejected.