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I think that there aready exists a proposal for an Abstract FS Layer for Python somewere.

I haven't been able to find any mention of it. Maybe you could point me in the right direction?

• Tal

http://wiki.python.org/moin/CodingProjectIdeas/FileSystemVirtualization

Another related reference is the recently announced UniPath module: http://sluggo.scrapping.cc/python/unipath/Unipath-current/README.html