Why is request.fspath deprecated in the latest branch ?

[hl037]

From here : https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/reference.html#request
I can see request.fspath will be deprecated. I can't find information about this decision and I was wondering what could I use instead to get the current test path ?

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

Good catch, the path alias needs to be added there, request.node.path will do meanwhile

[nicoddemus]

@hl037 we have a short notice here: https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/deprecations.html#node-fspath-in-favor-of-pathlib-and-node-path

However I wonder if we should expand that? We only mention some kind of reasoning briefly:

As pytest tries to move off py.path.local we ported most of the node internals to pathlib.

Should we expand/create a new section with the rationale and future plans?

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

We should