PEP on path module for standard library

[John Roth]

"Daniel Dittmar" <daniel.dittmar at sap.corp> wrote in message 
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> Duncan Booth wrote:
>>  I would have expected a path object to be a sequence of path elements 
>> rather than a sequence of characters.
>
> Maybe it's nitpicking, but I don't think that a path object should be a 
> 'sequence of path elements' in an iterator context.
>
> This means that
>
> for element in pathobject:
>
> has no intuitive meaning for me, so it shouldn't be allowed.

However, a path as a sequence of characters has even less
meaning - I can't think of a use, while I have an application
where traversing a path as a sequence of path elements makes
perfect sense: I need to descend the directory structure, directory
by directory, looking for specific files and types.

John Roth
>
> Daniel