PRE-PEP: new Path class

Christoph Becker-Freyseng webmaster at beyond-thoughts.com
Tue Jan 6 05:45:24 EST 2004


Dan Bishop wrote:
> "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?

IMO this is the bettter way.
However it might be useful for transition subclass str. (see my other 
posting)







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