"Daniel Dittmar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Duncan Booth wrote: >> I would have expected a path object to be a sequence of path elements >> rather than a sequence of characters. > > Maybe it's nitpicking, but I don't think that a path object should be a > 'sequence of path elements' in an iterator context. > > This means that > > for element in pathobject: > > has no intuitive meaning for me, so it shouldn't be allowed.
However, a path as a sequence of characters has even less meaning - I can't think of a use, while I have an application where traversing a path as a sequence of path elements makes perfect sense: I need to descend the directory structure, directory by directory, looking for specific files and types. John Roth > > Daniel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
