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Re: Automatic Type Conversion to String

From	Ned Deily <nad@acm.org>
Subject	Re: Automatic Type Conversion to String
Date	2012-02-15 19:21 +0100
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<dc097623-f377-4c7d-a065-13b58bf1cabd@n12g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>,
 Bruce Eckel <lists.eckel@gmail.com> wrote:
> Also, I discovered that the attempt to create a "Path" class goes back
> to 2006, where it created a lot of discussion and was finally shelved:
> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0355/
> 
> A significant part of the problem seems to be that there was no
> inheritance from str at the time, so maybe a lot of the issues they
> ran into could be solved now.

You might want to take a look at pathlib, a current attempt at providing 
object-oriented paths, written by Antoine Pitrou, one of the Python core 
developers:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pathlib

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad@acm.org

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Automatic Type Conversion to String Bruce Eckel <lists.eckel@gmail.com> - 2012-02-13 14:01 -0800
  Re: Automatic Type Conversion to String Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2012-02-13 14:27 -0800
    Re: Automatic Type Conversion to String Bruce Eckel <lists.eckel@gmail.com> - 2012-02-13 15:18 -0800
    Re: Automatic Type Conversion to String Bruce Eckel <lists.eckel@gmail.com> - 2012-02-13 15:18 -0800
      Re: Automatic Type Conversion to String Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> - 2012-02-14 15:26 +0100
        Re: Automatic Type Conversion to String Bruce Eckel <lists.eckel@gmail.com> - 2012-02-15 06:58 -0800
          Re: Automatic Type Conversion to String Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> - 2012-02-15 19:21 +0100

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