[path-PEP] Path inherits from basestring again

[Reinhold Birkenfeld]

Peter Hansen wrote:
> Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote:
>> Peter Hansen wrote:
>>>   if mypath.splitpath()[0] == 'c:/temp':
> 
> vs.
> 
>>>   if mypath.splitpath()[0] == Path('c:/temp'):
>> 
>> But you must admit that that't the cleaner solution.
> 
> "Cleaner"?  Not at all.  I'd say it's the more expressive solution, 
> perhaps, but I definitely wouldn't choose the word "cleaner" for 
> something which, to me, adds fairly unnecessary text.
> 
> But it's clearly a subjective matter, and as the one of us not involved 
> in doing the real work here, I'll bow to your judgement on the matter. ;-)

I'm in no way the last instance on this.
For example, everyone with CVS access is free to change the files ;)

Honestly, I'm in constant fear that allowing too much and loading too much
features won't increase the acceptance of python-dev <wink>

Reinhold