[Python-ideas] PEP 428 - object-oriented filesystem paths

[Andrew McNabb]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 09:36:56PM +0200, Yuval Greenfield wrote:
> 
> Though I don't understand why not to overload the "/" or "+" operators.
> Sounds more elegant than square brackets. Just make sure the op fails on
> anything other than Path objects.

Path concatenation is obviously not a form of division, so it makes
little sense to use the division operator for this purpose.  I always
wonder why the designers of C++ felt that it made sense to perform
output by left-bitshifting the output stream by a string:
    std::cout << "hello, world";

Fortunately, operator overloading in Python is generally limited to
cases where the operator's meaning is preserved (with the unfortunate
exception of the % operator for strings).

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