PRE-PEP: new Path class

[Dan Bishop]

"John Roth" <newsgroups at jhrothjr.com> wrote in message news:<vvivefh35qjv9a at news.supernews.com>...
> I'm adding a thread for comments on Gerrit Holl's pre-pep, which
> can be found here:
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/2578q
> 
... 
> 1) Should path be a subclass of str?
> 
> No.

So will the file constructor be "overloaded" to accept path objects? 
What about all those functions in the os module?