[Reinhold Birkenfeld]

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One more issue is open: the one of naming. As "path" is already the name of a module, what would the new object be called to avoid confusion? pathobj? objpath? Path?

[Michael Hoffman]

I would argue for Path.

Granted "path" is actually os.path, but I don't think it's wise to have stdlib modules whose names are differentiated only by case, especially on Windows (and other case-insensitive filesystems). =Tony.Meyer