[Python-ideas] PEP 428: poll about the joining syntax

[Ethan Furman]

Nick Coghlan wrote:
> Making "+" and "Path.join" mean something different from what they
> mean when called on strings is, in the specific case of a path
> representation, far too likely to lead to data corruption bugs for us
> to be happy with allowing it in the standard library. This is one I
> think Jason Orendorff's original path.py got right, which is why my
> current preference is "just copy path.py and use / and Path.joinpath".

Okay, that makes sense.

I think we should settle on one of the possibilities that does /not/ 
duplicate the word 'path', however.  That's one of those things that 
drives me nuts.  ;)  (It's a Path object -- of /course/ it's joining 
path stuff!)

~Ethan~