[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Reinhold> Right, that was a concern of mine, too. > Reinhold> "tobase"? > Reinhold> "tostring"? > Reinhold> "tobasestring"? > > If we're on a filesystem that understands unicode, would somepath.tostring() > return a unicode object or a string object encoded with some > to-be-determined encoding?
Whatever the base of the Path object is. It selects its base class based on os.path.supports_unicode_filenames. > Why not just add __str__ and __unicode__ methods to the class and let the > user use str(somepath) or unicode(somepath) as needed? > > Or am I missing something fundamental about what the base() method is > supposed to do? It should provide an alternative way of spelling Path.__bases__[0](path). Reinhold -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
