Re: PEP on path module for standard library
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Re: PEP on path module for standard library

From: Peter Hansen <peter@engcorp.com>
Date: Fri Jul 22 2005 - 20:24:33 CEST



Duncan Booth wrote:


> BTW, does it matter at all in practical use that the base class of path 


> varies between str and unicode depending on the platform?



I haven't seen any problem.  I confess I can't even imagine exactly what 


the problem might be, since they're both subclasses of basestring, 


aren't they?



And current code should have exactly the same issues when using str or 


unicode in all the calls that path() merely wraps.



So does it matter in practical use when one faces this issue and is 


*not* using "path"?



-Peter


Received on Thu Sep 29 17:06:34 2005