[Python-ideas] Better stdlib support for Path objects

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 14:57:03 -0400
Alexander Belopolsky
<alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 7:58 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> 
> > Not inheriting from built-in classes such as str, list or tuple
> > was one of the design points of pathlib. It will not change in the
> > future ;-)
> >
> > PEP 428 outlines this, but you can probably find a more detailed
> > discussion in the python-ideas archive.
> >
> 
> See also rejected PEP 355: "Subclassing from str is a particularly bad
> idea; many string
> operations make no sense when applied to a path."
> 
> http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0355/
> 
> (I would add that many str operations make no sense - period, so
> propagating them into newer designs would be a mistake.)

Thanks for the reference. It is indeed useful to know where we are
coming from here. Trying to mimick str has already been tried in the
past.

Regards

Antoine.