"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. Glad I'm not the only oddball. > 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. ???? The internal equivalent of (simplified, omitting error checking, etc.) for dir in pathobject: if isdir(dir): cd(dir) *is*, in essence, what the OS mainly does with paths (after splitting the string representation into pieces). Directory walks also work with paths as sequences (stacks, in particular). Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
