path.py was in teh wild, and is still in use. Why do we find ourselves debating new libraries like this as PEPs? We need to let them play out, see what sticks. If someone wants to make this library and stick it on PyPI, I'm not stopping them. I'm encouraging it. Let's see how it plays out. if it works out well, it deserves a PEP. In two or three years.
I agree,
This discussion has been framed unfairly.
The only things that should appear in this PEP are the guidelines Guido mentioned earlier in the discussion along with some use cases.
So python is chartering a path object module, and we should let whichever module is the best on pypi eventually get into the std-lib.
Yuval Greenfield