[Python-Dev] Adding the 'path' module (was Re: Some RFE forreview)

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 12:08 PM 6/27/2005 +1200, Tony Meyer wrote:
>[Reinhold Birkenfeld]
> >> 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).

This is the name of a *class*, not a module.  I.e., we are discussing 
adding a Path class to the 'os' module, that implements the interface of 
the "path" module.

We can't call it "path" (as a top-level module) because the interface will 
not be backward-compatible with current uses and installations of the 
"path" module.