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Using pathlib in constant? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/python

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Constant modules are modules that often contains variables that you want to use in many places without relying on hard coded values. Sometime you store paths (often relatives).

Is it a good thing to use pathlib.Path() object is modules dedicated to constant?

Or is there anything that you should know before choosing to do so?

I would say the same question appears for using re.compile() in constants.

Any advise?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't see why not. However I like to have my constants module contain data structures as simple as possible, therefore I would prefer strings (which are also immutable), and create a Path object when I need it. I can see though that you usually won't have the case where you would not want the path to be a Path object.