Guido van Rossum wrote:
By the way, it also occurs to me that for the sake of subclassability, the methods should not return 'path(somestr)' when creating new objects, but instead use self.__class__(somestr).
Clearly it needs a PEP.
I haven't read the rest of the thread Once, there was a path-related pre-PEP. http://topjaklont.student.utwente.nl/creaties/path/pep-xxxx.html It was never finished, nor am I working on it, but it's public domain. Just wanted to remind potential PEP-authors. regards, Gerrit. -- Weather in Twenthe, Netherlands 29/06 10:55: 18.0°C Few clouds mostly cloudy wind 1.3 m/s None (57 m above NAP) -- In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. -Dwight David Eisenhower, January 17, 1961