[Python-Dev] The path module PEP

[Nick Coghlan]

Michael Hoffman wrote:
> I've been using path.py for some time, and I can tell you that it
> would be a lot less useful if it no longer behaved like string-plus.

As Jason pointed out elsewhere, the strict typechecks that exist *in* the 
Python core, and the fact that path.py is *outside* that core makes the 
workaround of subclassing string necessary.

Since the PEP process has the power to alter the *core*, then we have other 
options than "this is a string, only not".

Cheers,
Nick.

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