John Roth wrote: > 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.
I *have* used a path as a sequence of characters before. I had to deal with a bunch of filenames that were formatted like "file_02832.a.txt" I can see the case for a path as a sequence of elements, although in practice, drive letters, extensions, and alternate streams complicate things. But as the discussion here unfolds I'm starting to feel that the advantages of using a possibly more "meaningful" approach to path as a sequence of elements are overwhelmed by the practical advantages of using a basestring. Mainly, that you can use it anywhere a basestring would be used today and it Just Works. -- Michael Hoffman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
