[path-PEP] Path inherits from basestring again

[Reinhold Birkenfeld]

Peter Hansen wrote:
> Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote:
>> Current change:
>> 
>> * Add base() method for converting to str/unicode.
> 
> Would basestring() be a better name?  Partly because that seems to be 
> exactly what it's doing, but more because there are (or used to be?) 
> other things in Path that used the word "base", such as "basename".
> 
> -1 on that specific name if it could be easily confused with "basename" 
> types of things.

Right, that was a concern of mine, too.
"tobase"?
"tostring"?
"tobasestring"?

Alternative is to set a class attribute "Base" of the Path class. Or export
PathBase as a name from the module (but that's not quite useful, because I
expect Path to be imported via "from os.path import Path").

Reinhold