[Python-Dev] / as path join operator

[Fredrik Lundh]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>     Jason> Filesystem paths are in fact strings on all operating
>     Jason> systems I'm aware of.
>
> I have no idea what you could mean by that.  The data structure used
> to represent a filesystem on all OS filesystems I've used is a graph
> of directories and files.  A filesystem object is located by
> traversing a path in that graph.
>
> Of course there's a string representation, especially for human use

if you define everything that can be identified by one or more well-defined
strings as a string, everything is a string.

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