In article <dc097623-f377-4c7d-a065-13b58bf1c...@n12g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, Bruce Eckel <lists.ec...@gmail.com> wrote: > Also, I discovered that the attempt to create a "Path" class goes back > to 2006, where it created a lot of discussion and was finally shelved: > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0355/ > > A significant part of the problem seems to be that there was no > inheritance from str at the time, so maybe a lot of the issues they > ran into could be solved now.
You might want to take a look at pathlib, a current attempt at providing object-oriented paths, written by Antoine Pitrou, one of the Python core developers: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pathlib -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
