Peter Hansen wrote: >> Most prominent change is that it doesn't inherit from str/unicode >> anymore. >> I found this distinction important, because as a str subclass the Path >> object >> has many methods that don't make sense for it. > > On this topic, has anyone ask the original author (Jason Orendorff) > whether he has some background on this decision that might benefit the > discussion?
My impression is that he doesn't have a lot of spare cycles for this. He didn't have anything to add to the python-dev discussion when I informed him of it. I'd love to hear what he had to say about the design. -- Michael Hoffman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
