on 22.07.2005 00:21 Michael Hoffman said the following: > Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote: > >>John Roth wrote: >> >> >>>Why did Guido want a PEP? >> >>He said, >> >>""" >>Whoa! Do we really need a completely different mechanism for doing the >>same stuff we can already do? The path module seems mostly useful for >>folks coming from Java who are used to the Java Path class. > > """ > > What is this Java Path class? I have been STFWing and have found nothing > on it in the. Indeed if you search for "Java Path class" (with quotes) > almost half of the pages are this message from Guido. ;) > > Any Java hackers here want to tell us of the wonders of the Java Path > class?
no such thing exists. there is only the `File` class that incorporates a little bit of the `path` functionality and some of the python built-in `file` functionality. my little self would actually propose to make *path* a built-in type as an intermediate between file and basestring/str/unicode (the latter is probably needed). *ducks* -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
