[Python-3000] Mini Path object

[Greg Ewing]

Talin wrote:

> If this were not true, 'make' could never work across filesystems. You'd 
> have to have a different makefile for every different filesystem type.

Ever tried to use a Unix makefile on classic MacOS
or VMS? It wouldn't work very well at all...

Even relative pathnames can have semantic differences
that don't translate across systems. For example,
in VMS, the pathname of a directory looks quite
different from the pathname of a file. You couldn't
round-trip that to a Unix pathname and back without
losing the distinction.

--
Greg