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List:       python-list
Subject:    RE: [path-PEP] Path inherits from basestring again
From:       "Tony Meyer" <t-meyer () ihug ! co ! nz>
Date:       2005-07-29 2:54:37
Message-ID: ECBA357DDED63B4995F5C1F5CBE5B1E801DB03FB () its-xchg4 ! massey ! ac ! nz
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> Well, I actually had some correspondence with Jason on this 
> very subject a year or so ago:
[...]
> Obviously, I don't know how much weight Jason's original 
> ideas have on the prepped-for-syslib module, but it does 
> support what other people have been saying: that the Path 
> should behave like a string where a string is expected.

Was that the whole email?  It certainly adds weight to '+' having the normal
string behaviour, but it didn't really say anything about why '/' should be
a shortcut for join.  Do you know if Jason had any reasoning for this other
than laziness <wink>?

=Tony.Meyer

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