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

[Mike Graham]

On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> Georg Brandl wrote:
>>
>> If you inherit from str, you cannot override any of the operations that
>> str already has (i.e. __add__, __getitem__).
>
>
> Is this a 3.x thing?  My 2.x version of Path overrides many of the str
> methods and works just fine.

This is for theoretical/practical reasons, not technical ones.

Mike