[path-PEP] Path inherits from basestring again

[Tony Meyer]

> Well, I actually had some correspondence with Jason on this 
> very subject a year or so ago:
[...]
> Obviously, I don't know how much weight Jason's original 
> ideas have on the prepped-for-syslib module, but it does 
> support what other people have been saying: that the Path 
> should behave like a string where a string is expected.

Was that the whole email?  It certainly adds weight to '+' having the normal
string behaviour, but it didn't really say anything about why '/' should be
a shortcut for join.  Do you know if Jason had any reasoning for this other
than laziness <wink>?

=Tony.Meyer