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Subject: Re: os.path and Path
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:55:24 -0700
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In article <ite8950jj3@news6.newsguy.com>,
 Chris Torek <nospam@torek.net> wrote:

> >Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> >> Why do you think there's no Path object in the standard library? *wink*
> 
> In article <mailman.16.1308239495.1164.python-list@python.org>
> Ethan Furman  <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> >Because I can't find one in either 2.7 nor 3.2, and every reference I've 
> >found has indicated that the other Path contenders were too 
> >all-encompassing.
> 
> What I think Steven D'Aprano is suggesting here is that the general
> problem is too hard, and specific solutions too incomplete, to
> bother with.
> 
> Your own specific solution might work fine for your case(s), but it
> is unlikely to work in general.

Note there was quite a bit of discussion some years back about adding 
Jason Orendorff's Path module to the standard library, a module which 
had and still has its fans.  Ultimately, though, it was vetoed by Guido.

http://bugs.python.org/issue1226256
http://wiki.python.org/moin/PathModule

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad@acm.org