Brian Beck wrote: > Ron Adam wrote: > >> This give a more general purpose for path objects. Working out ways >> to retrieve path objects from a dictionary_tree also would be useful I >> think. I think a Tree class would also be a useful addition as well. >> >> Any thoughts on this? > > > I don't think this would be as useful as you think, for Path objects at > least. Path objects represent *a* path, and building a tree as you have > proposed involves storing much more information than necessary. For > instance, if I have the path /A/B/X, a tree-structured object would > logically also store the siblings of X and B (subpaths of B and A).
But you miss understand... I'm not suggesting a path object be a tree, but it should/could be used as a key for accessing data stored in a tree structure. The path object it self would be much the same thing as what is already being discussed. Using it as a key to a tree data structure is an additional use for it. Regards, Ron -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
