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I'm willing to subclass str, but when I tried it before it became a little =
confusing -- I think mostly because anytime I assigned to self it seemed li=
ke it converted the whole object to a str rather than a Path. I suspect I d=
on't know the proper idiom for doing this -- any hints? Thanks ...