Using pathlib in constant? - eviltoast

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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    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.