path module

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In article <mailman.1057651032.22842.python-list at python.org>,
 Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote:

> I think Jason Orendorff's path module is really nice:
>   http://www.jorendorff.com/articles/python/path/
> 
> Beats the hell out of os.path, which is an ugly thing indeed.  The OO
> interface means you could use the interface nicely to implement other
> things, like URLs.  The problem?  It's just some module.  The various os
> functions (of which path replaces quite a few) have become idiomatic to
> me, and I'm sure others as well.  I find myself reluctant to use it in
> code that's not essentially private, because it's changing something
> small and seemingly trivial, and people won't be familiar with it.
> 
> The solution?  It should be a builtin!  Or, if not a builtin, included
> in the os module.  But I actually like the idea of it being a builtin --
> if open is a builtin, path stands right up there too.  It would get rid
> of 90% of the use of the os module.
> 
> Thoughts?  Reactions?

I would greatly appreaciate such a module in the std library, but while 
Jason's module has some very cool features, to my taste it goes a bit 
too far with overloading operators. I really don't like overloading a/b 
to mean os.path.join(a, b) and I don't think the default iterator should 
do a listdir (although list(mypath) is indeed cute). If it were toned 
down a bit in this area I think we may be able to make a good case for 
including it in the std library.

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