[Python-ideas] Better stdlib support for Path objects

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Juancarlo Añez <apalala at gmail.com> wrote:

> What do you think would be the nastier impacts of making pathlib.Path
> inherit from str?


Duplication of storage.  Currently, pathlib.Path objects store a list of
path components.  To inherit meaningfully from str, they would have to
store joined path string as well.
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