Mike Orr wrote: > There's something that bothers me about putting the path in an > attribute rather than subclassing tuple. [...] > How do you do slicing and joining? If Path subclasses object, it > could be done there like in the first example. But if Path subclasses > string, that API is taken:
I think Path should neither subclass string nor tuple. It might behave like a string or a tuple, but it shouldn't subclass, as that unnecessarily constraints the implementation strategy. In particular, it shouldn't subclass str, as you then could not represent Unicode file names in a reasonable way anymore. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
