Duncan Booth wrote: > BTW, does it matter at all in practical use that the base class of path > varies between str and unicode depending on the platform?
Isn't it even worse than this? On Win2K & XP, don't the file systems have something to do with the encoding? So D: (a FAT drive) might naturally be str, while C: (an NTFS drive) might naturally be unicode. Even worse, would be a path that switches in the middle (which it might do if we get to a ZIP file or use the newer dir-in-file file systems. --Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
