PEP on path module for standard library

[mkent at webmd.net]

I really love Jason's 'path' module.  Sadly, I've encountered a serious
problem with using it.  When you try to 'freeze' an application module,
and Jason's 'path' module is present in any of the directories that are
looked at by freeze's module finder (your app doesn't have to import
it), freeze goes into an infinite loop of imports, eventually getting a
'maximum recursion depth' exception.  This seems to be related to
freeze getting confused between 'os.path' and Jason's 'path'.

I encountered this using Jason's latest 'path' module and Python 2.3.2.
 I was able to solve it for my use by renaming path.py to newpath.py
and using 'from newpath import path' in my modules.

I've just notified Jason about this.  I presume a solution like mine
will be used, and look forward to seeing Jason's module in stdlib.