adding a path module to stdlib

[Alia Khouri]

This may have been discussed ad nauseaum before, but every time I use
os.path manipulations I miss something like Jason Orrendorf's path.py
being in the standard library.
[http://www.jorendorff.com/articles/python/path/]

Ruby has it:
 require 'pathname'
 path = Pathname.new("/tmp/f.log")

What are we missing to make something similarly useful happen for
python?

AK