[Python-Dev] / as path join operator
Tony Meyer
t-meyer at ihug.co.nz
Sat Jan 28 01:40:39 CET 2006
[Jason Orendorff]
> Filesystem paths are in fact strings on all operating systems I'm
> aware of. And it's no accident or performance optimization. It's
> good design.
Isn't that simply because filesystems aren't object orientated? I
can't call methods of a path through the filesystem. There's a
difference between a path, which is, yes, always (?) a string, and a
Path object that provides convenient methods/properties.
(Maybe one of the experimental object-orientated file systems has non-
string paths. I have no idea).
=Tony.Meyer
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