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More obnoxiously than that even, imo, it’s that pathlib removes trailing slashes. Its impossible (afaict) to reproduce path.join(‘a’, ‘b/‘) with pathlib

I don't use this library, but one I wrote myself with maybes, eithers, validators, and various other monads in production code.

While not pythonic, I don't think its a gimmick. I allow my junior engineers to write imperative and we will pair program to convert it to use monad structures like the ones in this library. We tend to find a lot of bugs and reduce the lines of code.

While we could probably clean up their imperative code to remove bugs and duplicated logic, but I find using monad chains makes it easier to find abstractions.

Data validation and error handling probably net the most return on investment in my experience. Simply return a left at some unit of code and handle it at the end of the chain.

I like the idea of Returns — and partially rolled my own equivalent, before I knew it existed — but it probably goes against the Python grain a little too much to make productive use of it.